On Revolt: Strategies of National Liberation

by J. Bowyer Bell

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674733363
• ISBN13: 9780674733367
• Release Date: February 1976
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 287 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Worth Tracking Down

Though I believe this book has long since gone out-of-print, it is worth your while to track it down. Bell covers revolts in South Africa, Northern Ireland, Palestine, Egypt, Kenya, and Malaysia. But he also discusses how revolt works and why groups feel the need to rebel against their governments in the first place. The contents are divided into four parts: Revolts & Strategies of National Liberation, Revolts Against the Crown, On Revolt- Matrix, Models, and a Template, and The Rebel Vocation. Bell focuses particularly on revolts against the British Empire and the collapse of British power over the last century. The book was published in 1976 so obviously it is rather out-of-date but Bell's theories are still solid and do pass the proverbial test of time. I would highly recommend it to any student of history, government, and/or political science and I have personally found it very useful as a research tool.