Taking power : on the origins of third world revolutions / John Foran.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Foran, John, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Revolutions--Developing countries.

Revolutions.

Revolutions--Developing countries--History--20th century.

Insurgency--Developing countries.

Insurgency.

Social change--Developing countries.

Social change.

Developing countries--Politics and government--20th century.

Developing countries.

Developing countries--Social conditions--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 395 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Taking Power analyzes the causes behind some three dozen revolutions in the Third World between 1910 and the present. It advances a theory that seeks to integrate the political, economic, and cultural factors that brought these revolutions about, and links structural theorizing with original ideas on culture and agency. It attempts to explain why so few revolutions have succeeded, while so many have failed. The book is divided into chapters that treat particular sets of revolutions including the great social revolutions of Mexico 1910, China 1949, Cuba 1959, Iran 1979, and Nicaragua 1979, the anticolonial revolutions in Algeria, Vietnam, Angola, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe from the 1940s to the 1970s, and the failed revolutionary attempts in El Salvador, Peru, and elsewhere. It closes with speculation about the future of revolutions in an age of globalization, with special attention to Chiapas, the post-September 11 world, and the global justice movement.

Contents:

1. Theorizing revolutions

2. The great social revolutions

3. The closest cousins : the great anti-colonial revolutions

4. The greatest tragedies : reversed revolutions

5. The great contrasts : attempts, political revolutions, and non-attempts

6. The past and future of revolutions.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-380) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-14233-4

0-511-12776-6

1-280-43219-5

0-511-18241-4

0-511-19992-9

0-511-30042-5

0-511-48897-1

0-511-12723-5

OCLC:

252510336