Peasant Uprisings in Seventeenth-Century France, Russia and China
Peasant Uprisings in Seventeenth-Century France, Russia and China

Author: Roland Mousnier

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-09-05

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 1000424286

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This book, first published in 1971, is a close analysis of some of the typical peasant uprisings of the seventeenth century. The goal of the movements in France and China was a return to an older and more traditional society, rather than a profound transformation of the social structure. In Russia, however, the peasants attempted to overturn the rigid order of a two-class structure and replace it with a more democratic society.

Peasant Uprisings in Seventeenth-Century France, Russia and China
Peasant Uprisings in Seventeenth-Century France, Russia and China

Author: Roland Mousnier

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-09-06

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 9781032048161

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This book, first published in 1971, is a close analysis of some of the typical peasant uprisings of the seventeenth century. The goal of the movements in France and China was a return to a more traditional society, but in Russia the peasants attempted to replace rigid order with a more democratic society.

States and Social Revolutions
States and Social Revolutions

Author: Theda Skocpol

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-09-29

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 1316453944

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State structures, international forces, and class relations: Theda Skocpol shows how all three combine to explain the origins and accomplishments of social-revolutionary transformations. Social revolutions have been rare but undeniably of enormous importance in modern world history. States and Social Revolutions provides a new frame of reference for analyzing the causes, the conflicts, and the outcomes of such revolutions. It develops a rigorous, comparative historical analysis of three major cases: the French Revolution of 1787 through the early 1800s, the Russian Revolution of 1917 through the 1930s, and the Chinese Revolution of 1911 through the 1960s. Believing that existing theories of revolution, both Marxist and non-Marxist, are inadequate to explain the actual historical patterns of revolutions, Skocpol urges us to adopt fresh perspectives. Above all, she maintains that states conceived as administrative and coercive organizations potentially autonomous from class controls and interests must be made central to explanations of revolutions.

The French Peasantry in the Seventeenth Century
The French Peasantry in the Seventeenth Century

Author: Pierre Goubert

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1986-06-26

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780521312691

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Presenting the regional, social and economic variety of pre-modern France, this survey of rural life examines the crucial external relationships between peasant/priest and peasant/seigneur as well as the not less important ones that existed within the peasant life lived from cradle to grave.

The History of Social Movements in Global Perspective
The History of Social Movements in Global Perspective

Author: Stefan Berger

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-01-12

Total Pages: 719

ISBN-13: 1137304278

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Social movements have shaped and are shaping modern societies around the globe; this is evident when we look at examples such as the Arab Spring, Spain’s Indignados and the wider Occupy movement. In this volume, experts analyse the ‘classic’ and new social movements from a uniquely global perspective and offer insights in current theoretical discussions on social mobilisation. Chapters are devoted both to the study of continental developments of social movements going back to the nineteenth century and ranging to the present day, and to an emphasis on the transnational dimension of these movements. Interdisciplinary and truly international, this book is an essential text on social movements for historians, political scientists, sociologists, philosophers and social scientists.

A Social History of Western Europe, 1450-1720
A Social History of Western Europe, 1450-1720

Author: Sheldon J. Watts

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-06

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 1351720392

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This thoroughly readable and stimulating social history of Western Europe, first published in 1984, explores the family, religion and the supernatural, and the social structure and social controls of rural society. This title will be of interest not only to students, but to anyone who is anxious to understand the lives – both internal and external – of rural people in his fascinating period that is so central to everyone’s past.

Urban Protest in Seventeenth-Century France
Urban Protest in Seventeenth-Century France

Author: William Beik

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1997-01-28

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780521575850

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This lucid and wide-ranging survey is the first study in English to identify a distinctive urban phase in the history of the early modern crowd. Through close analysis of the behaviour of protesters and authorities in more than fifteen seventeenth-century French cities, William Beik explores a full spectrum of urban revolt from spontaneous individual actions to factional conflicts, culminating in the dramatic Ormee movement in Bordeaux. The 'culture of retribution' was a form of popular politics with roots in the religious wars and implications for future democratic movements. Vengeful crowds stoned and pillaged not only intrusive tax collectors but even their own magistrates, whom they viewed as civic traitors. By examining in depth this interaction of crowds and authorities, Professor Beik has provided a central contribution to the study of urban power structures and popular culture.

The Making of Modern Europe, 1648–1780
The Making of Modern Europe, 1648–1780

Author: Geoffrey Treasure

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-12-16

Total Pages: 611

ISBN-13: 1134417667

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In 1640 the term Europe was without real political significance. In the following years the idea of Europe came to mean much more - a period documented in this fascinating book.