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