This Very Short Introduction illuminates the actions of revolutionaries, their strategies, their successes and failures, and the ways in which revolutions continue to dominate world events and the popular imagination. Starting with the city-states of ancient Greece and Rome, Jack Goldstone traces the development of revolutions through the Renaissance and Reformation, the Enlightenment and liberal constitutional revolutions such as in America, and their opposite--the communist revolutions of the 20th century.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1: What is a revolution?
- Chapter 2: What causes revolutions?
- Chapter 3: Revolutionary processes, leadership, and outcomes
- Chapter 4: Revolutions in the ancient world
- Chapter 5: Revolutions in the Renaissance and Reformation
- Chapter 6: Constitutional revolutions: America, France, Europe (1830 and 1848), and Meiji Japan
- Chapter 7: Communist revolutions: Russia, China, and Cuba
- Chapter 8: Revolutions against dictators: Mexico, Nicaragua, and Iran
- Chapter 9: Color revolutions: The Philippines, Eastern Europe and the USSR, and Ukraine
- Chapter 10: The Arab revolutions of 2011: Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Syria
- Chapter 11: The future of revolutions
- References
- Further reading
- Index