{"product_id":"rethinking-revolutionary-change-in-europe-a-neostructuralist-approach-9781538163870","title":"Rethinking Revolutionary Change in Europe: A","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReconsidering the English, French, and Russian Revolutions, this book offers an important new approach to the theoretical and comparative study of revolutions. Bailey Stone proposes an innovative “neostructuralist” integration of competing structuralist and postmodernist theory. Providing a balanced and nuanced critique of both sides, he presents new ways of understanding radical change in the European polities that created the concept—and the dramatic realities—of modern revolution. He focuses on the central issues of modernizers versus traditionalists, old regime bourgeoisies, regicides, terror, and state legitimacy. By reconciling political and cultural theories of revolutionary causation and process, Stone’s synthesis marks a critical advance in our understanding of revolution.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat a terrific book! While rigidly ‘structuralist’ and ‘postmodernist’ scholars of revolutions have vehemently attacked each other, leading to narrow and sometimes illogical views, Stone is able to keep a balanced perspective of both sides. Keeping close to the details of what actually occurred in key cases, Stone offers nuanced criticism of both views and produces a creative synthesis. This is the most important book in the theoretical and comparative study of European revolutions that I have seen in years. -- Jack A. Goldstone, George Mason University\u003cbr\u003eA worthy companion to theBailey Stone’s The Anatomy of Revolution Revisited, this provocative book makes a strong case for taking a balanced, ‘neostructuralist’ approach to the English, French, and Russian Revolutions by applying it to five critical issues that have arisen in the recent literature. Accessible to general readers while engaging specialists, the book provides illuminating revisits of long-debated matters, such as the role of the bourgeoisie, as well as fascinating tours of less-familiar territory, such as the juridical foundations of revolutionary regicide. -- Thomas Kaiser, University of Maryland and emeritus, University of Arkansas at Little Rock\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Structuralism, Postmodernism, and—Neostructuralism? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1 Modernizers versus Traditionalists in the European Revolutions \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2 In Search of the Elusive Ancien Régime Bourgeoisie \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3 To Kill a Monarch: From Proceduralism to Revolutionary Raison d’État \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4 Circumstances versus Ideas in the Revolutionary “Furies” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5 Crises of Revolutionary Legitimacy: Thermidorian Outcomes \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: Neostructuralism and the Postrevolutionary State as Historical Problem \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSuggestions for Further Reading \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041221378391,"sku":"9781538163870","price":28.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781538163870.jpg?v=1750949417","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/rethinking-revolutionary-change-in-europe-a-neostructuralist-approach-9781538163870","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}