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We cannot escape history : states and revolutions / Neil Davidson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Davidson, Neil, 1957-2020, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Revolutions--History.
- Revolutions.
- Revolutions--Historiography.
- Revolutions and socialism--History.
- Revolutions and socialism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (321 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Neil Davidson explores classic themes of nation, state, and revolution in this collection of essays. Ranging from the extent to which nationalism can be a component of led-wing politics to the difference between bourgeois and socialist revolutions, the book concludes with an extended discussion of the different meanings history has for conservatives, radicals, and Marxists.
- Contents:
- PREFACE; 1. HOW REVOLUTIONARY WERE THE BOURGEOIS REVOLUTIONS?; 2. ASIATIC, TRIBUTARY, OR ABSOLUTIST?; 3. CENTURIES OF TRANSITION: CHRIS WICKHAM ON THE FEUDAL REVOLUTION; 4. SCOTLAND: BIRTHPLACE OF PASSIVE REVOLUTION?; 5. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION IS NOT OVER: HENRY HELLERON FRANCE, 1789-1815; 6. THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR CONSIDERED AS A BOURGEOIS REVOLUTION; 7. WHEN HISTORY FAILED TO TURN: PIERRE BROUÉ ON THE GERMAN REVOLUTION; 8. FROM UNEVEN TO COMBINED DEVELOPMENT; 9. CHINA: UNEVENNESS, COMBINATION, REVOLUTION?; 10. THIRD WORLD REVOLUTION
- 11. FROM DEFLECTED PERMANENT REVOLUTION TO THE LAW OF UNEVEN AND COMBINED DEVELOPMENT12. REVOLUTIONS BETWEEN THEORY AND HISTORY: A RESPONSE TO ALEX CALLINICOS AND DONNY GLUCKSTEIN; AFTERWORD: WE CANNOT ESCAPE HISTORY; NOTES; INDEX; ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 28, 2016).
- ISBN:
- 9781608465064
- 1608465063
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