Scripting revolution : a historical approach to the comparative study of revolutions /
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 patter...
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Stanford, California :
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Table of Contents:
- Did the English have a script for revolution in the seventeenth century? / Tim Harris
- God's revolutions : England, Europe, and the concept of revolution in the mid-seventeenth century / David R. Como
- Every great revolution is a civil war / David Armitage
- Revolutionizing revolution / Keith Michael Baker
- Constitutionalism : the happiest revolutionary script / Jack Rakove
- From constitutional to permanent revolution : 1649 and 1793 / Dan Edelstein
- Scripting the French Revolution, inventing the Terror : Marat's assassination and its interpretations / Guillaume Mazeau
- The antislavery script : Haiti's place in the narrative of Atlantic revolution / Malick W. Ghachem
- Scripting the German Revolution : Marx and 1848 / Gareth Stedman Jones
- Reading and replaying the revolutionary script : revolutionary mimicry in nineteenth-century France / Dominica Chang
- 'Une révolution vraiment scientifique' : Russian terrorism, the escape from the European orbit, and the invention of a new revolutionary paradigm / Claudia Verhoeven
- Scripting the Russian Revolution / Ian D. Thatcher
- You say you want a revolution : revolutionary and reformist scripts in China, 1898-2012 / Jeffrey Wasserstrom and Wu Yidi
- Spiritual atom bomb : the Little Red Book explodes the Cold War order / Alexander C. Cook
- The reel, real and hyper-real revolution : scripts and counter-scripts in Cuban documentary film / Lillian Guerra
- Writing on the wall : 1968 as event and representation / Julian Bourg
- Scripting a revolution : fate or Fortuna in the 1979 revolution in Iran / Abbas Milani
- The multiple scripts of the Arab revolutions / Silvana Toska.
