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Record Nr.

UNINA9910965477403321

Titolo

Theorizing revolutions / / edited by John Foran

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1997

ISBN

1-134-77920-8

0-203-28832-7

1-134-77921-6

1-280-09498-2

0-203-20663-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (308 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ForanJohn

Disciplina

303.6/4

Soggetti

Revolutions

Social psychology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 268-288) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures and tables; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; INTRODUCTION; STATE-CENTERED APPROACHES TO SOCIAL REVOLUTIONS: STRENGTHS AND LIMITATIONS OF A THEORETICAL TRADITION; STRUCTUAL THEORIES OF REVOLUTION; AGENTS OF REVOLUTION: ELITE CONFLICTS AND MASS MOBILIZATION FROM THE MEDICI TO YELTSIN; POPULATION GROWTH AND REVOLUTIONARY CRISES; REVOLUTION IN THE REAL WORLD: BRINGING AGENCY BACK IN; GENDER AND REVOLUTIONS; RACE AND THE PROCESS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONS

DISCOURSES AND SOCIAL FORCES: THE ROLE OF CULTURE AND CULTURAL STUDIES IN UNDERSTANDING REVOLUTIONSTHE COMPARATIVE-HISTORICAL SOCIOLOGY OF THIRD WORLD SOCIAL REVOLUTIONS: WHY A FEW SUCCEED, WHY MOST FAIL; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In Theorizing Revolutions, some of the most exciting thinkers in the study of revolutions today look critically at the many theoretical frameworks through which revolutions can be understood and apply them to specific revolutionary cases. The theoretical approaches considered in this way include state-centred perspectives, structural



theory, world-system analysis, elite models, demographic theories and feminism and the revolutions covered range in time from the French Revolution to Eastern Europe in 1989 and in place from Russia to Vietnam and Nicaragua.