Revolutions and History
An Essay in Interpretation
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 1. January 1999
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-0-7456-1135-8 (ISBN)
Description
This book offers a fresh framework for the historical understanding of revolutions and ideas about revolution.
Reviews / Votes
'Revolutions and History combines the virtues of two very different kinds of study. It is a lucid, concise and reliable guide through the forest of literature on the subject: an ideal introduction for students. It is also a wide-ranging essay full of original ideas on topics as diverse as world-system theory and the effects of what the author describes as 'the revolutionary narrative'. I don't know of any book which so skilfully combines history with theory in a study of revolution.' Peter Burke, Emmanuel College, Cambridge'[Covers] the topic from its beginnings in modern European history up to the present. Parker has more in mind than a mere typology. He wishes also to give a structural-analytic explanation of revolutions, along with a hermeneutically inflected history of their appearance over time.' American Historical Review
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Pop-up book
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 171 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
490 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7456-1135-8 (9780745611358)
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08/1999
1st Edition
Polity Press
€27.50
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Person
Noel Parker is Senior Lecturer in European Politics, in the Department of Linguistic and International Studies at the University of Surrey.
Content
Acknowledgements. ntroduction: Meanings of Revolution in Time and Space.
Part I: How Revolutions Happen:.
1. Revolutions in Past History.
2. Why Revolutions have Occurred.
3. The Trend in Revolutions.
4. Revolutions and Modernity in the Twentieth Century.
Part II: Why Revolutions Matter: .
5. Revolutions and Historical Change: the 'Revolutionary Narrative'.
6. The Revolutionary Narrative in History.
7. The Revolutionary Narrative at the End of the Twentieth Century.
Appendix: Revolutions and the Understanding of History.
Notes.
References.
Index.
Part I: How Revolutions Happen:.
1. Revolutions in Past History.
2. Why Revolutions have Occurred.
3. The Trend in Revolutions.
4. Revolutions and Modernity in the Twentieth Century.
Part II: Why Revolutions Matter: .
5. Revolutions and Historical Change: the 'Revolutionary Narrative'.
6. The Revolutionary Narrative in History.
7. The Revolutionary Narrative at the End of the Twentieth Century.
Appendix: Revolutions and the Understanding of History.
Notes.
References.
Index.