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Social revolutions in the modern world - Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1994 - 354p ix

Table of contents
Introduction;
Part I. Doing Macroscopic Social Science:
1. A critical review of Barrington Moore's social origins of dictatorship and democracy;
2. Wallerstein's world capitalist system: a theoretical and historical critique;
3. The uses of comparative history in macrohistorical research;
Part II. Making Sense of the Great Revolutions:
4. Explaining social revolutions: in quest of a social-structural approach;
5. Revolutions and the world-historical development of capitalism;
6. France, Russia, and China: a structural analysis of social revolutions;
Part III. A Dialogue about Culture and Ideology in Revolutions:
7. Ideologies and revolutions: reflections on the French case, byWilliam H. Sewell, Jr;
8. Cultural idioms and political ideologies in the revolutionary reconstruction of state power;
Part IV. From Classical to Contemporary social revolutions:
9. What makes peasants revolutionary?;
10. Rentier state and Shi'a Islam in the Iranian revolution;
11. Explaining revolutions in the contemporary Third World;
12. Social revolutions and mass military mobilisation;
Conclusion: reflections on recent scholarship about social revolutions and how to study them.

ISBN: 9780521400886

Subjects--Topical Terms:
1. Social Revolutions - History2. Social Revolutions - Modern World - History

Dewey Class. No.: 303.640000 / SKO