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Scripting Revolution: A Historical Approach to the Comparative Study of Revolutions
Keith Baker
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Description for Scripting Revolution: A Historical Approach to the Comparative Study of Revolutions
Hardback. This volume of essays proposes a new, historical approach to the comparative study of revolutions by exploring the ways in which they create, inherit, or extend recognizable scripts for political action and social action. Editor(s): Baker, Keith; Edelstein, Dan. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: HBTV; JPHC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 237 x 32. Weight in Grams: 800.
The Arab Spring was heralded and publicly embraced by foreign leaders of many countries that define themselves by their own historic revolutions. The contributors to this volume examine the legitimacy of these comparisons by exploring whether or not all modern revolutions follow a pattern or script. Traditionally, historians have studied revolutions as distinct and separate events. Drawing on close familiarity with many different cultures, languages, and historical transitions, this anthology presents the first cohesive historical approach to the comparative study of revolutions. This volume argues that the American and French Revolutions provided the ... Read more
The Arab Spring was heralded and publicly embraced by foreign leaders of many countries that define themselves by their own historic revolutions. The contributors to this volume examine the legitimacy of these comparisons by exploring whether or not all modern revolutions follow a pattern or script. Traditionally, historians have studied revolutions as distinct and separate events. Drawing on close familiarity with many different cultures, languages, and historical transitions, this anthology presents the first cohesive historical approach to the comparative study of revolutions. This volume argues that the American and French Revolutions provided the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
800 g
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804793964
SKU
V9780804793964
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About Keith Baker
Keith M. Baker is Professor of Early Modern European History at Stanford University. His books include What's Left of Enlightenment? and Inventing the French Revolution.Dan Edelstein is Professor of French and History at Stanford University. He is the author of The Terror of Natural Right: Republicanism, the Cult of Nature, and the French Revolution, which won the 2009 Oscar Kenshur ... Read more
Reviews for Scripting Revolution: A Historical Approach to the Comparative Study of Revolutions
An important and exciting book in several respects, this volume provides a rare opportunity for today's historians to engage in some hard-nosed, systematic comparative history in a highly constructive manner while greatly widening their own personal perspective on the spectrum of modern revolutions. It also makes a splendid teaching tool.
Jonathan Israel
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