Social Revolutions in the Modern World.

Abstract

Introduction Part I. Doing Macroscopic Social Science: 1. A critical review of Barrington Moore's social origins of dictatorship and democracy 2. Wallerstein's world capitalist system: a theoretical and historical critique 3. The uses of comparative history in macrohistorical research Part II. Making Sense of the Great Revolutions: 4. Explaining social revolutions: in quest of a social-structural approach 5. Revolutions and the world-historical development of capitalism 6. France, Russia, and China: a structural analysis of social revolutions Part III. A Dialogue about Culture and Ideology in Revolutions: 7. Ideologies and revolutions: reflections on the French case, byWilliam H. Sewell, Jr 8. Cultural idioms and political ideologies in the revolutionary reconstruction of state power Part IV. From Classical to Contemporary social revolutions: 9. What makes peasants revolutionary? 10. Rentier state and Shi'a Islam in the Iranian revolution 11. Explaining revolutions in the contemporary Third World 12. Social revolutions and mass military mobilisation Conclusion: reflections on recent scholarship about social revolutions and how to study them.

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