Scripting revolution : a historical approach to the comparative study of revolutions / edited by Keith Michael Baker and Dan Edelstein.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Baker, Keith Michael, editor.

Edelstein, Dan, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Revolutions--History.

Revolutions.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

IX, 438 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2015.

Summary:

The "Arab Spring" was Heralded and publicly embraced by foreign leaders of many countries that define themselves by their own historic revolutions. The contributors to this volume examine the legitimacy of these comparisons by exploring whether or not all modern revolutions follow a pattern or script. Traditionally, historians have studied revolutions as distinct and separate events. Drawing on close familiarity with many different cultures, languages, and historical transitions, this anthology presents the first cohesive historical approach to the comparative study of revolutions. This volume argues that the American and French Revolutions provided the genesis of the revolutionary "script" that was rewritten by Marx, which was revised by Lenin and the Bolshevik Revolution, which was revised again by Mao and the Chinese Communist Revolution. Later revolutions in Cuba and Iran improvised further. This script is once again on display in the capitals of the Middle East and North Africa, and it will serve as the model for future revolutionary movements. Book jacket.

Contents:

Did the English have a script for revolution in the seventeenth century? / Tim Harris

God's revolutions : England, Europe, and the concept of revolution in the mid-seventeenth century / David R. Como

Every great revolution is a civil war / David Armitage

Revolutionizing revolution / Keith Michael Baker

Constitutionalism : the happiest revolutionary script / Jack Rakove

From constitutional to permanent revolution : 1649 and 1793 / Dan Edelstein

Scripting the French Revolution, inventing the Terror : Marat's assassination and its interpretations / Guillaume Mazeau

The antislavery script : Haiti's place in the narrative of Atlantic revolution / Malick W. Ghachem

Scripting the German Revolution : Marx and 1848 / Gareth Stedman Jones

Reading and replaying the revolutionary script : revolutionary mimicry in nineteenth-century France / Dominica Chang

'Une révolution vraiment scientifique' : Russian terrorism, the escape from the European orbit, and the invention of a new revolutionary paradigm / Claudia Verhoeven

Scripting the Russian Revolution / Ian D. Thatcher

You say you want a revolution : revolutionary and reformist scripts in China, 1898-2012 / Jeffrey Wasserstrom and Wu Yidi

Spiritual atom bomb : the Little Red Book explodes the Cold War order / Alexander C. Cook

The reel, real and hyper-real revolution : scripts and counter-scripts in Cuban documentary film / Lillian Guerra

Writing on the wall : 1968 as event and representation / Julian Bourg

Scripting a revolution : fate or Fortuna in the 1979 revolution in Iran / Abbas Milani

The multiple scripts of the Arab revolutions / Silvana Toska.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780804793964

0804793964

9780804796163

0804796165

OCLC:

904144317