Origins of a Spontaneous Revolution
Author: Karl-Dieter Opp
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780472105755
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplains the extraordinary collapse of Communist East Germany
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A Concise History of Revolution
Author: Mehran Kamrava
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 199
ISBN-13: 1108485952
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom rebellion to revolution -- Social movements and revolution -- Revolutionary states -- Revolutionary polities.
An Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft
Publisher:
Published: 1794
Total Pages: 550
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Origins of Political Order
Author: Francis Fukuyama
Publisher: Profile Books
Published: 2011-05-12
Total Pages: 529
ISBN-13: 1847652816
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNations are not trapped by their pasts, but events that happened hundreds or even thousands of years ago continue to exert huge influence on present-day politics. If we are to understand the politics that we now take for granted, we need to understand its origins. Francis Fukuyama examines the paths that different societies have taken to reach their current forms of political order. This book starts with the very beginning of mankind and comes right up to the eve of the French and American revolutions, spanning such diverse disciplines as economics, anthropology and geography. The Origins of Political Order is a magisterial study on the emergence of mankind as a political animal, by one of the most eminent political thinkers writing today.
Revolution and Reaction
Author: Kurt Weyland
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-03-28
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1108483550
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplains how bold efforts at profound progressive change provoked a powerful reactionary backlash that led to the imposition of brutal, regressive dictatorships.
The Old Regime and the Revolution
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
Publisher:
Published: 1856
Total Pages: 364
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKOrigins of the Chinese Revolution, 1915-1949
Author: Lucien Bianco
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780804708272
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnalyzes the internal pressures and social crises that fostered the beginnings of the Chinese Revolution
Sparks of Life
Author: James E. Strick
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-06-01
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 0674044088
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow, asks James E. Strick, could spontaneous generation--the idea that living things can suddenly arise from nonliving materials--come to take root for a time (even a brief one) in so thoroughly unsuitable a field as British natural theology? No less an authority than Aristotle claimed that cases of spontaneous generation were to be observed in nature, and the idea held sway for centuries. Beginning around the time of the Scientific Revolution, however, the doctrine was increasingly challenged; attempts to prove or disprove it led to important breakthroughs in experimental design and laboratory techniques, most notably sterilization methods, that became the cornerstones of modern microbiology and sped the ascendancy of the germ theory of disease. The Victorian debates, Strick shows, were entwined with the public controversy over Darwin's theory of evolution. While other histories of the debates between 1860 and 1880 have focused largely on the experiments of John Tyndall, Henry Charlton Bastian, and others, Sparks of Life emphasizes previously understudied changes in the theories that underlay the debates. Strick argues that the disputes cannot be understood without full knowledge of the factional infighting among Darwinians themselves, as they struggled to create a socially and scientifically viable form of Darwinian science. He shows that even the terms of the debate, such as biogenesis, usually but incorrectly attributed to Huxley, were intensely contested.
Policing Public Opinion in the French Revolution
Author: Charles Walton
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009-02-02
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 0199710015
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, French revolutionaries proclaimed the freedom of speech, religion, and opinion. Censorship was abolished, and France appeared to be on a path towards tolerance, pluralism, and civil liberties. A mere four years later, the country descended into a period of political terror, as thousands were arrested, tried, and executed for crimes of expression and opinion. In Policing Public Opinion in the French Revolution, Charles Walton traces the origins of this reversal back to the Old Regime. He shows that while early advocates of press freedom sought to abolish pre-publication censorship, the majority still firmly believed injurious speech--or calumny--constituted a crime, even treason if it undermined the honor of sovereign authority or sacred collective values, such as religion and civic spirit. With the collapse of institutions responsible for regulating honor and morality in 1789, calumny proliferated, as did obsessions with it. Drawing on wide-ranging sources, from National Assembly debates to local police archives, Walton shows how struggles to set legal and moral limits on free speech led to the radicalization of politics, and eventually to the brutal liquidation of "calumniators" and fanatical efforts to rebuild society's moral foundation during the Terror of 1793-1794. With its emphasis on how revolutionaries drew upon cultural and political legacies of the Old Regime, this study sheds new light on the origins of the Terror and the French Revolution, as well as the history of free expression.
Nonviolent Revolutions
Author: Sharon Erickson Nepstad
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011-07-28
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 0199910553
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the spring of 1989, Chinese workers and students captured global attention as they occupied Tiananmen Square, demanded political change, and were tragically suppressed by the Chinese army. Months later, East German civilians rose up nonviolently, brought down the Berlin Wall, and dismantled their regime. Although both movements used tactics of civil resistance, their outcomes were different. Why? In Nonviolent Revolutions, Sharon Erickson Nepstad examines these and other uprisings in Panama, Chile, Kenya, and the Philippines. Taking a comparative approach that includes both successful and failed cases of nonviolent resistance, Nepstad analyzes the effects of movements' strategies along with the counter-strategies regimes developed to retain power. She shows that a significant influence on revolutionary outcomes is security force defections, and explores the reasons why soldiers defect or remain loyal and the conditions that increase the likelihood of mutiny. She then examines the impact of international sanctions, finding that they can at times harm movements by generating new allies for authoritarian leaders or by shifting the locus of power from local civil resisters to international actors. Nonviolent Revolutions offers essential insights into the challenges that civil resisters face and elucidates why some of these movements failed. With a recent surge of popular uprisings across the Middle East, this book provides a valuable new understanding of the dynamics and potency of civil resistance and nonviolent revolt.
