In recent uprisings from Santiago to Hong Kong, many of the protesters aims have been consistent, but there are also specific and diverse struggles such as demands for direct democracy (as in France), the rejection of ethnic or sectarian identities (Iraq and Lebanon). Uprisings provides one way to find a common thread in all this by examining the similarities and differences among a full range of rebellions in the past, offering tools for visualising history that offer a vivid point of entry to the information.
