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Record Nr.

UNINA9910155251203321

Autore

Goldstone Jack A.

Titolo

Revolution and rebellion in the early modern world : population change and state breakdown in England, France, Turkey, and China, 1600-1850 / / Jack A. Goldstone

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-315-40860-0

1-315-40862-7

1-315-40861-9

Edizione

[Twenty fifth anniversary edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (646 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

303.6/40903

Soggetti

Revolutions - History

History, Modern

State, The - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"First edition published by University of California Press, 1991."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. The central problem : how to explain the periodic waves of state breakdown in the early modern world -- 2. State breakdown in early modern Europe : the English Revolution -- 3. State breakdown in early modern Europe : the French Revolution -- 4. State breakdown in early modern Asia : the Ottoman crisis and the Ming-Qing transition -- 5. Ideology, cultural frameworks, revolutionary struggles, and state reconstruction -- 6. From past to present, and a look to the future : 25 years later.

Sommario/riassunto

In this 25th anniversary edition of the classic that demonstrated the role of population changes--such as rising youth cohorts, urbanization, shifting elite mobility--as causal factors of revolutions and rebellions, Jack A. Goldstone reflects on the history of revolutions in the last twenty-five years, from the Philippines and other color revolutions to the Arab Uprisings and the rise of the Islamic State. The new concluding chapter updates his major theory and looks to the future of revolutions in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa.