Theorizing revolutions / edited by John Foran.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Foran, John.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Revolutions.

Social psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (308 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Theorizing Revolutions, some of the most exciting thinkers in the study of revolutions today look critically at the many theoretical frameworks through which revolutions can be understood and apply them to specific revolutionary cases. The theoretical approaches considered in this way include state-centred perspectives, structural theory, world-system analysis, elite models, demographic theories and feminism and the revolutions covered range in time from the French Revolution to Eastern Europe in 1989 and in place from Russia to Vietnam and Nicaragua.

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures and tables; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; INTRODUCTION; STATE-CENTERED APPROACHES TO SOCIAL REVOLUTIONS: STRENGTHS AND LIMITATIONS OF A THEORETICAL TRADITION; STRUCTUAL THEORIES OF REVOLUTION; AGENTS OF REVOLUTION: ELITE CONFLICTS AND MASS MOBILIZATION FROM THE MEDICI TO YELTSIN; POPULATION GROWTH AND REVOLUTIONARY CRISES; REVOLUTION IN THE REAL WORLD: BRINGING AGENCY BACK IN; GENDER AND REVOLUTIONS; RACE AND THE PROCESS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONS

DISCOURSES AND SOCIAL FORCES: THE ROLE OF CULTURE AND CULTURAL STUDIES IN UNDERSTANDING REVOLUTIONSTHE COMPARATIVE-HISTORICAL SOCIOLOGY OF THIRD WORLD SOCIAL REVOLUTIONS: WHY A FEW SUCCEED, WHY MOST FAIL; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 268-288) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-77920-8

0-203-28832-7

1-134-77921-6

1-280-09498-2

0-203-20663-0

9780203206638

OCLC:

437082243