{"product_id":"revolutions-and-history-an-essay-in-interpretation-9780745611365","title":"Revolutions and History  An Essay in","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eaeo An original and provocative book that challenges traditional theories on the meaning of revolution.  aeoDrews a range of disciplinary approaches imaginatively together.  aeo A wide variety of case studies reinforce and illuminate the authora s arguments.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003ci\u003eRevolutions and History\u003c\/i\u003e 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.' \u003ci\u003ePeter Burke, Emmanuel College, Cambridge\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e'[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.' \u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements. \u003cp\u003entroduction: Meanings of Revolution in Time and Space.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: How Revolutions Happen:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Revolutions in Past History.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Why Revolutions have Occurred.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. The Trend in Revolutions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Revolutions and Modernity in the Twentieth Century.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Why Revolutions Matter:\u003c\/b\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Revolutions and Historical Change: the 'Revolutionary Narrative'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. The Revolutionary Narrative in History.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. The Revolutionary Narrative at the End of the Twentieth Century.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix: Revolutions and the Understanding of History.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404338504023,"sku":"9780745611365","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/revolutions-and-history-an-essay-in-interpretation-9780745611365","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}