Oranges of Revolution

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From the Arab Spring and the UK riots of 2011 to civil wars in Syria, Iraq, South Sudan, Libya, and the Ukraine, our rulers pick and choose their favorites, color-coding the good revolutions and demonizing those they cannot control as `terrorists'. Clare Saponia rigorously explores these confused and violent struggles, as if dissecting a blood orange - skin, pith, flesh, pips, and juice - from cause to consequence, aspiration to betrayal, and defeat to renewed hopes for social justice. Here is a book about democracy and power, despotism and resistance, imperialism and revolution.