Social Revolutions in the Modern World

Name: Social Revolutions in the Modern World
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ISBN: 9780521409384

ISBN-10: 0521409381

ISBN-13: 9780521409384

Edition: 1994

Authors: Theda Skocpol, Robert H. Bates, Ellen Comisso, Peter Lange, Joel S. Migdal

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Book details

List price: $31.99
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 9/30/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.94" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Theda Skocpol is professor of government and sociology at Harvard University and the author of Boomerang: Health Care Reform and the Turn Against Government.



Introduction



Doing Macroscopic Social Science



A critical review of Barrington Moore?s social origins of dictatorship and democracy



Wallerstein?s world capitalist system: a theoretical and historical critique



The uses of comparative history in macrohistorical research



Making Sense of the Great Revolutions



Explaining social revolutions: in quest of a social-structural approach



Revolutions and the world-historical development of capitalism



France, Russia, and China: a structural analysis of social revolutions



A Dialogue about Culture and Ideology in Revolutions



Ideologies and revolutions: reflections on the French case, byWilliam H. Sewell, Jr



Cultural idioms and political ideologies in the revolutionary reconstruction of state power



From Classical to Contemporary social revolutions



What makes peasants revolutionary?



Rentier state and Shi?a Islam in the Iranian revolution



Explaining revolutions in the contemporary Third World



Social revolutions and mass military mobilisation


Conclusion reflections on recent scholarship about social revolutions and how to study them