ISBN:
041577182X
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0415771838
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9780415771825
,
9780415771832
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xvii, 306 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Revolution in the Making of the Modern World : Social identities, globalization and modernity
DDC:
303.64
Keywords:
Social change Congresses
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Globalization Congresses
;
Group identity Congresses
;
Revolutions Congresses
Abstract:
Featuring contributions from leading thinkers on revolution, it combines theoretical concerns with case studies of individual revolutions to question whether ideas of revolution are still relevant in the postmodern and globalized world of the twenty-first century
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Preface; Foreword: Roads to modernity; 1 Revolution in the making of the modern world; Part I: From 1789 to 1989; 2 Understanding revolution; 3 Revolution and democracy: The European experience; 4 ''Transformation'' of state socialism or class revolution?; Part II: Social identities, modernity, and new modes of struggle; 5 Revolutionary internationalism and its perils; 6 Durable inequality: The legacies of China's revolutions and the pitfalls of reform
Description / Table of Contents:
7 Is there a future for Islamist revolutions?: Religion, revolt, and Middle Eastern modernity8 Revolution, nationalism, and global justice: Towards social transformation with women; 9 Stories of revolution in the periphery; Part III: Globalization and the possible futures of revolution; 11 Revolution and empire; 12 Virtual revolution?: Information communication technologies, networks, and social transformation; 13 Explaining revolutionary terrorism; 14 The future of revolution: Imitation or innovation?; 15 New political cultures of opposition: What future for revolutions?
Description / Table of Contents:
Afterword: On the concept of revolutionBibliography; Index
Note:
"This book presents the results of the conference held at King's College REsearch Centre, University of Cambridge, UK, in April 2005"--Pref
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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