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Scripting Revolution A Historical Approach to the Comparative Study of Revolutions

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Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

07.10.2015

Abbildungen

21 figures

Herausgeber

Keith Michael Baker + weitere

Verlag

Stanford University Press

Seitenzahl

448

Maße (L/B/H)

23,1/16,8/2,8 cm

Gewicht

771 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-8047-9396-4

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"The comparative study of revolutions has been left to sociologists and political scientists for too long. This book is long overdue and will undoubtedly become a landmark in the comparative study of revolutions and a spur to further research on revolutions."-Darrin McMahon, Dartmouth College "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, H-France "Keith Michael Baker and Dan Edelstein have edited an important and timely book that reassesses how the concept of revolution has evolved over the past three centuries....[T]he editors are right to insist that humanists can and should get back into the comparative revolutions business."-Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, Journal of Modern History

Produktdetails

Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

07.10.2015

Abbildungen

21 figures

Herausgeber

Verlag

Stanford University Press

Seitenzahl

448

Maße (L/B/H)

23,1/16,8/2,8 cm

Gewicht

771 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-8047-9396-4

Herstelleradresse

Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
36244 Bad Hersfeld
DE

Email: gpsr@libri.de

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  • Contents and Abstracts1Did the English Have a Script for Revolution in the Seventeenth Century? chapter abstract

    This chapter examines the various resonances the word revolution held in seventeenth-century England. When used in a political context, it rarely meant turning full cycle or returning to the status quo ante, but rather a sudden and dramatic change, a turning quite around, or a regime change. The English commonly used the term revolution (or its plural revolutions) to refer to the political and religious upheavals of the period, and although revolutions did not necessarily have to involve fundamental or radical change, they could do, and by the end of the century there had emerged the notion that these revolutions had been beneficial and desirable because they had delivered England (and Scotland and Ireland) from tyranny. England's script for revolution was linked to the question of how to bring about the desired regime change and thus whether it was possible to resist a monarchy that was deemed absolute.

    2God's Revolutions: England, Europe, and the Concept of Revolution in the mid-Seventeenth Century chapter abstract

    This chapter explores the early use of the word and concept of "revolution" as deployed during the English Civil Wars and Interregnum. The politicized usage of the word was chiefly adapted from continental sources, reflecting both intensifying parallel political conflicts in several parts of Europe, and increasingly efficient networks for the transnational dissemination of news and information. After the regicide in 1649, the term "revolution" appeared with growing frequency in England, as contemporaries groped for a new vocabulary to describe the churning constitutional instability and change that plagued their polity. Although used in several ways, the word was appropriated with particular enthusiasm by radical puritan republicans, who often invoked it to describe God's providential disruption of established forms and constitutional order.

    3Every Great Revolution is a Civil War chapter abstract

    The conceptual categories of 'revolution' and 'civil war' are as contested as they are porous. This essay argues that the modern 'script' of revolution was not as original as some scholars have claimed. As a narrative of the violent and transformative reorganization of sovereignty, the revolutionary script developed after 1789 had morphological and genealogical similarities to an earlier and much more enduring script of political change: the Roman script of civil war. The essay traces the various narratives derived in classical and post-classical texts from the Roman experience of civil war and shows how Roman conceptions of civil war shaped later narratives of revolution. It concludes that civil war was the original genus of which revolution was only a late-evolving species.

    4Revolutionizing Revolution chapter abstract

    This chapter draws on digitized databases and other materials to investigate meanings of the term "revolution" and its cognates in English, American, and French imprints in the century between the Glorious Revolution and the French Revolution. It traces a shift from the notion of revolution as a fac