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Theorizing Revolutions
By John Foran
312 pages
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Synopsis
In Theorizing Revolutions , some of the most exciting thinkers in the study of revolutions today look critically at the many theoretical frameworks through which revolutions can be understood and apply them to specific revolutionary cases. The theoretical approaches considered in this way include state-centred perspectives, structural theory, world-system analysis, elite models, demographic theories and feminism and the revolutions covered range in time from the French Revolution to Eastern Europe ...
In Theorizing Revolutions , some of the most exciting thinkers in the study of revolutions today look critically at the many theoretical frameworks through which revolutions can be understood and apply them to specific revolutionary cases. The theoretical approaches considered in this way include state-centred perspectives, structural theory, world-system analysis, elite models, demographic theories and feminism and the revolutions covered range in time from the French Revolution to Eastern Europe in 1989 and in place from Russia to Vietnam and Nicaragua.
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Table of contents
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- Title Page iii
- Contents v
- Figures and Tables vii
- Agknowledgements x
- Introduction 1
- 1 - State-Centered Approaches to Social Revolutions 11
- 2 - Structural Theories of Revolution 38
- 3 - Agents of Revolution 73
- 4 - Population Growth and Revolutionary Crises 102
- 5 - Revolution in the Real World 123
- 6 - Gender and Revolutions 137
- 7 - Race and the Process of the American Revolutions 168
- 8 - Discourses and Social Forces 203
- 9 - The Comparative-Historical Sociology of Third World Social Revolutions 227
- Bibliography 268
- Index 289