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Coups d'état

Here are entered general works about coups d'état. Works on individual coups d'état and attempted coups are entered under the name of the country with appropriate historical subdivision, e.g. France -- History -- Coup d'état, 1851.

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• Coups d'état -- Chile
• Coups d'état -- Fiction
• Coups d'état -- Fiji
• Coups d'état -- France
• Coups d'état -- Indonesia
• Coups d'état -- Iran
• Coups d'état -- United States

• Coup d'états
• Coups (Coups d'état)

• The Anti-Coup (Boston: Albert Einstein Institution, 2003), by Gene Sharp and Bruce Jenkins (PDF via aeinstein.org)

• Chile 1973: The Tragedy of Frontist Politics (reprints of selected articles from The Class Struggle, 1973), by Spark (Organization : United States) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Soldiers of Fortune, by Richard Harding Davis (Gutenberg text)
• Soldiers of Fortune (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1897), by Richard Harding Davis, illust. by Charles Dana Gibson
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org; frontispiece page missing

• The Generals of October (electronic edition, 2007), by John T. Cullen (HTML with commentary at johntcullen.com)

• The 2006 Military Takeover in Fiji A Coup to End All Coups? (2009), ed. by Jon Fraenkel, Stewart Firth, and Brij V. Lal (HTML and PDF with commentary at ANU E Press)

• Histoire d'un Crime (2 volumes in French; Paris: J. Hetzel, ca. 1877), by Victor Hugo
  • both volumes together: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org
• The History of a Crime: The Testimony of an Eye-Witness (New York and London: G. Routledge and Sons, ca. 1890), by Victor Hugo, trans. by T. H. Joyce and Arthur Locker
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Der Achtzehnte Brumaire des Louis Bonaparte, by Karl Marx (multiple editions)
• The History of a Crime: The Testimony of an Eye-Witness, by Victor Hugo, trans. by T. H. Joyce and Arthur Locker (Gutenberg text)
• Liudviko Bonaparto Briumerio Aštuonioliktoji ir Naminis Karas Prancuzijoj (two works by Marx on French political conflicts translated into Lithuanian; Brooklyn: "Laisvės" Spauda, 1922), by Karl Marx, trans. by V. Tauras, contrib. by Friedrich Engels (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Fortune of the Rougons, by Émile Zola, ed. by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly
  • page images at MOA
  • Gutenberg text

• Indonesia 1965: The Second Greatest Crime of the Century, by Deirdre Griswold (HTML at workers.org)

• Breaking the Silence: Survivors Speak About 1965-66 Violence in Indonesia (Clayton, Victoria: Monash University Publishing, c2014), ed. by Putu Oka Sukanta, trans. by Jennifer Lindsey (HTML and Epub with commentary at monash.edu)

• Breaking the Silence: Survivors Speak About 1965-66 Violence in Indonesia (Clayton, Victoria: Monash University Publishing, c2014), ed. by Putu Oka Sukanta, trans. by Jennifer Lindsey (HTML and Epub with commentary at monash.edu)

• The Secret CIA History of the Iran Coup, 1953 (redacted version of a classified 1954 report, with additional material; this edition published 2000), by Donald Newton Wilber, ed. by Malcolm Byrne (PDF file at GWU)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Pranksters vs. Autocrats: Why Dilemma Actions Advance Nonviolent Activism (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2020), by Srdja Popovic and Sophia A. McClennen (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Tactics of Christian Resistance (Tyler, TX: Geneva Divinity School Press, 1983), ed. by Gary North (PDF with commentary at garynorth.com)
• From Poverty to Power: How Active Citizens and Effective States Can Change the World (second edition; c2012), by Duncan Green (PDF with commentary at oxfam.org)
• The Anti-Autocracy Handbook: A Scholars' Guide to Navigating Democratic Backsliding (2025), by Stephan Lewandowsky, Vera Kempe, Konstantinos Armaos, Ulrike Hahn, Christoph Abels, Susilo Wibisono, Winnifred R. Louis, Sunita Sah, Christina Pagel, Nina Jankowicz, Renee DiResta, Philipp Markolin, Henrik Schoenemann, Ralph Hertwig, Henry Crull, Barry Mauer, Dawn Holford, Ezequiel Lopez-Lopez, and John Cook (PDF with commentary at zenodo.org)
• Pro-Democracy Organizing Against Autocracy in the United States: A Strategic Assessment and Recommendations (Harvard Kennedy School Faculty Research Working Paper RWP22-017; 2022), by Erica Chenoweth and Zoe Marks (PDF at Harvard)
• Civil Disobedience: Conscience, Tactics, and the Law (originally published 1971; this edition Ann Arbor: MPublishing, University of Michigan Library, 2013), by Carl Cohen (page images at HathiTrust)
• How Nonviolent Struggle Works (East Boston, MA: Albert Einstein Institution, c2013), by Gene Sharp (PDF via aeinstein.org)
• Lobbying the Autocrat: The Dynamics of Policy Advocacy in Nondemocracies (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), ed. by Max Grömping and Jessica C. Teets (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• Nonviolence Speaks: Communicating Against Repression (prepublication version, 2003), by Brian Martin and Wendy Varney (PDF in Australia)
• How Superior Powers Oght to Be Obeyd (reproduced from the 1558 edition, with a bibliographical note; New York: Pub. for the Facsimile Text Society by Columbia University Press, 1931), by Christopher Goodman, contrib. by Charles Howard McIlwain (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Role of Power in Nonviolent Struggle (Boston: Albert Einstein Institution, c1990), by Gene Sharp (PDF via aeinstein.org)
• On Strategic Nonviolent Conflict: Thinking About the Fundamentals (Boston: Albert Einstein Institution, c2004), by Robert L. Helvey (PDF via aeinstein.org)
• The Higher Law, In Its Relations to Civil Government: With Particular Reference to Slavery, and the Fugitive Slave Law (Auburn: Derby and Miller, 1852), by William Hosmer
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at MOA
• A Letter to a Hindu, by Leo Tolstoy, ed. by Mahatma Gandhi
  • HTML at Pitzer
  • Gutenberg text
• On Liberty of the Press for Advocating Resistance to Government: Being Part of an Essay Written for the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Sixth Edition, 1821 (New York: Free Speech League, 1913), by James Mill, ed. by Theodore Schroeder (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Russian Revolution (Christchurch: Free Age Press; London: Everett and Co., 1907), by Leo Tolstoy, trans. by Louise Maude, Aylmer Maude, and V. G. Chertkov
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Christian Martyrs: or, The Conditions of Obedience to the Civil Government, by Jacob Gilbert Forman (page images at MOA)
• T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, by Hakim Bey (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• Appeasement or Resistance, and Other Essays on New Testament Judaism (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987), by David Daube (HTML at UC Press)

• Dictatorship, Disorder and Decline in Myanmar, ed. by Monique Skidmore and Trevor Wilson (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)

• A Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission and Non-Resistance to the Higher Powers: With Some Reflections on the Resistance Made to King Charles I, and on the Anniversary of His Death, in Which the Mysterious Doctrine of That Prince's Saintship and Martyrdom is Unriddled (Boston: D. Fowle, 1750), by Jonathan Mayhew
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • HTML at Evans TCP
• A Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission and Non-Resistance to the Higher Powers: With Some Reflections on the Resistance Made to King Charles I, and on the Anniversary of His Death, in Which the Mysterious Doctrine of That Prince's Saintship and Martyrdom is Unriddled (electronic edition; originally published 1750), by Jonathan Mayhew, ed. by Paul Royster (PDF at unl.edu)
• The Good Old Cause, Further Discuss'd, in a Letter to the Author of The Jacobite's Hopes Reviv'd (1710), by Charles Leslie (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Civil Resistance in the East European and Soviet Revolutions (Cambridge, MA: Albert Einstein Institution, c1991), by Adam Roberts (PDF via aeinstein.org)

• A State of Disobedience (c2003), by Tom Kratman (HTML with commentary at Baen Free Library)

• The 2006 Military Takeover in Fiji A Coup to End All Coups? (2009), ed. by Jon Fraenkel, Stewart Firth, and Brij V. Lal (HTML and PDF with commentary at ANU E Press)

• The Federal Raid on Ruby Ridge, ID: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology, and Government Information of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Fourth Congress, First Session (Washington: GPO, 1997), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Liberation of Iraq, A Progress Report: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred Sixth Congress, Second Session, June 28, 2000 (Washington: GPO, 2000), by United States Senate Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, contrib. by Sam Brownback, Richard Norman Perle, and Ahmad Chalabi
  • PDF at fdlp.gov
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Nonviolent Resistance In Lithuania: A Story of Peaceful Liberation (Cambridge, MA: Albert Einstein Institution, c1996), by G. Miniotaitė (PDF via aeinstein.org)

• Trespassing for Dear Life: What is Operation Rescue Up To? (Fort Worth, TX: Dominion Press, c1989), by Gary North (PDF with commentary at garynorth.com)
• When Justice is Aborted: Biblical Standards for Non-Violent Resistance (Tyler, TX: Institute for Christian Economics, c1989), by Gary North (PDF with commentary at garynorth.com)

• Civil Resistance in the East European and Soviet Revolutions (Cambridge, MA: Albert Einstein Institution, c1991), by Adam Roberts (PDF via aeinstein.org)

• The Second Wave: Return of the Militias (Montgomery, AL: Southern Poverty Law Center, 2009), by Larry Keller, contrib. by Mark Potok (PDF with commentary at splcenter.org)
• Lone Gunners for Jesus: Letters to Paul J. Hill (Tyler, TX: Institute for Christian Economics, c1994), by Gary North (PDF with commentary at garynorth.com)
• Down With the Carter-Reagan War Drive! (1981), by Revolutionary Workers League and Socialist League (Democratic-Centralist) (multiple formats at archive.org)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.