Rebels with a Cause
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9789462984103
Subjects: Social history; Working class, history; Socialism, history; Anarchism; Communism, history
Description: Every age has had its rebels: socialists, peace activists, sexual reformers, fundamentalists, and more. The collections of the International Institute of Social History (IISH) in Amsterdam are full of them. The IISH is the world's largest documentation centre in the field of social history and emancipation movements. This book looks back on seventy-five years of the IISH and its collections, with a focus on creative ideas and people who fought for radical change, from Karl Marx to Aung San Suu Kyi, the French Revolution to the Chinese student revolt of 1989, from the early modern world explorers to today's anti-globalists.