Screen LibraryDebating modern revolution : the evolution of revolutionary ideas /
"Revolution is an idea that has been one of the most important drivers of human activity since its emergence in its modern form in the 18th century. From the American and French revolutionaries who upset a monarchical order that had dominated for over a millennium up to the Arab Spring, this no...
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Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,
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| Publisher Address: | London : |
| Publication Dates: | 2016. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Debates in world history
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"Revolution is an idea that has been one of the most important drivers of human activity since its emergence in its modern form in the 18th century. From the American and French revolutionaries who upset a monarchical order that had dominated for over a millennium up to the Arab Spring, this notion continues but has also developed its meanings. Equated with democracy and legal equality at first and surprisingly redefined into its modern meaning, revolution has become a means to create nations, change the social order, and throw out colonial occupiers, and has been labelled as both conservati |
| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Carrier Form: | ix, 204 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9781472589620 1472589629 9781472589637 1472589637 |
| Index Number: | JC491 |
| CLC: | D02 |
| Call Number: | D02/C396 |
| Contents: | Section I. The Birth of the Modern Revolution (1700-1815) -- Section II. The Revolutionaries Regroup (1815-1848) -- Section III. The Spread of Revolution beyond Western Europe and the Americas (1848-1949) -- Section IV. The Post-Imperial World (1949-present). |