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Revolutions and History

An Essay in Interpretation

Noel Parker author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Published:1st Jan '99

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This book offers a fresh framework for the historical understanding of revolutions and ideas about revolution.

'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

ISBN: 9780745611358

Dimensions: 236mm x 158mm x 21mm

Weight: 490g

240 pages