Revolution in history / edited by Roy Porter and Mikuláš Teich.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Porter, Roy, 1946-2002.

Teich, Mikuláš.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Revolutions--History.

Revolutions.

History.

Social change.

Physical Description:

x, 341 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1986.

Summary:

In this book fifteen contributors, leading historians and renowned experts in particular fields or periods, examine the interpretative value of ideas of revolution for explaining historical development within their own specialism, assessing the existing historiography and offering their own personal views. The book presents a conspectus of modern historical opinion, offers a sweeping historical overview, and will prove an invaluable introduction for students to major questions of historiographical interpretation and controversy.

Contents:

1 Revolution / E. J. Hobsbawm 5

2 Revolution in antiquity / M. I. Finley 47

3 Social devolution and revolution: Ta Thung and Thai Phing / Joseph Needham 61

4 The bourgeois revolution of 1848-9 in Central Europe / Arnost Klima 74

5 Socialist revolution in Central Europe, 1917-21 / T. Hajdu 101

6 Imperialism and revolution / Victor Kiernan 121

7 Socio-economic revolution in England and the origin of the modern world / Alan Macfarlane 145

8 Agrarian and industrial revolutions / William N. Parker 167

9 On revolution and the printed word / Elizabeth L. Eisenstein 186

10 Revolution in popular culture / Peter Burke 206

11 Revolution in music - music in revolution / Ernst Wangermann 226

12 Revolution and the visual arts / Ronald Paulson 240

13 Revolution and technology / Akos Paulinyi 261

14 The scientific revolution: a spoke in the wheel? / Roy Porter 290

15 The scientific-technical revolution: an historical event in the twentieth century / Mikulas Teich 317.

Notes:

Includes bibliographies and index.

ISBN:

0521259789

0521277841

OCLC:

13332806