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Revolutions Theoretical, Comparative, and Historical Studies

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ISBN-10: 015506679X

ISBN-13: 9780155066793

Edition: 3rd 2003 (Revised)

Authors: Jack A. Goldstone

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From the American Revolution to the conflicts in Afghanistan, revolutions have played a critical role in the course of history. Insight into the causes of revolutions and the factors that shape their outcomes is critical to understanding politics and world history--and REVOLUTIONS is a reader designed to address this need. Part One offers a combination of classic treatises and late-breaking scholarship that develops students' theoretical understanding of revolutionary movements. Part Two shows students how these theories play out in real life through rich, accessible accounts of major revolutionary episodes in modern history.
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Book details

List price: $149.95
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Wadsworth
Publication date: 7/9/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Jack A. Goldstoneis the Hazel Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University and received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. He has won major prizes from the American Sociological Association and the Historical Society for his research on revolutions, population, and political conflict. His 2010 essay in Foreign Affairs, The New Population Bomb has received world-wide attention. A Phi Beta Kappa visiting lecturer, Goldstone has authored or edited ten books and published over one hundred articles in books and scholarly journals. His latest books are Why Europe? The Rise of the West 1500ndash;1850(2008) and Understanding Revolutions(forthcoming).

Preface
Introduction: The Comparative and Historical Study of Revolutions
Theories of Revolutions
Classic Approaches
Manifesto of the Communist Party
The French Revolution and the Growth of the State
Charisma, Bureaucracy, and Revolution
The Debate on Modernization
Revolution and Political Order
Does Modernization Breed Revolution?
The Origins of Revolutions
Peasants and Revolutions
Revolutions: A Structural Analysis
Revolutions in Modern Dictatorships
Agency and Culture in Revolutions
The Outcomes of Revolutions
Revolution and the Rebirth of Inequality: Stratification in Postrevolutionary Society
Gender and Revolutions
Dictatorship or Democracy: Outcomes of Revolution in Iran and Nicaragua
The Impact of Revolution on Social Welfare in Latin America
Counter-Revolution
Revolution and War
The Diffusion of Revolutionary Waves
Comparative and Historical Studies of Revolution
Republican Revolutions
The English Revolution: A Structural-Demographic Approach
The French Revolution: The Abolition of Feudalism
The American Revolution: The Radicalism of Revolution
Marxist Revolutions
The Russian Revolution of 1917: Autocracy and Modernization
The Chinese Communist Revolution
The Cuban Revolution, 1959-1961
Revolutions Against Dictatorships
The Mexican Revolution
The Nicaraguan Revolution
Countermobilization in the Iranian Revolution
The Philippines "People-Power" Revolution
Revolutions Against Communism
The East European Revolutions of 1989
Revolution in the U.S.S.R., 1989-1991
The Social Sources of the Student Demonstrations in China, 1989
Guerrilla and Ethnic Revolts
Toward a Comparative Sociology of Latin American Guerrilla Movements
South Africa: The Struggle Against Apartheid
The Palestinian "Intifada" Revolt
The Afghanistan Revolutionary Wars
A Brief Guide to Further Reading
Bibliography
Index