Revolutions: a Very Short Introduction

Name: Revolutions: a Very Short Introduction
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ISBN: 9780197666302

ISBN-10: 0197666302

ISBN-13: 9780197666302

Edition: 2nd

Authors: Jack A. Goldstone

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In their pursuit of social justice, revolutionaries have taken on the assembled might of monarchies, empires, and dictatorships. They have often, though not always, sparked cataclysmic violence, and have at times won miraculous victories, though at other times suffered devastating defeat. This Very Short Introduction illuminates the revolutionaries, their strategies, their successes and failures, and the ways in which revolutions continue to dominate world events and the popular imagination. Starting with the city-states of ancient Greece and Rome, Jack Goldstone traces the development of revolutions through the Renaissance and Reformation, the Enlightenment and liberal constitutional…

Book details

Edition: 2nd
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/28/2023
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 6.85" wide x 4.45" long x 0.37" tall
Weight: 0.484
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).