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Genre/Form: | History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Malia, Martin E. (Martin Edward). History's locomotives. New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press, 2007 (OCoLC)756213797 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Martin E Malia; Terence Emmons |
ISBN: | 0300113919 9780300113914 9780300126907 0300126905 |
OCLC Number: | 67383932 |
Description: | x, 360 pages ; 25 cm |
Contents: | Introduction : Delineating the problem -- Historic Europe: the medieval matrix and its internal contradictions, 1000-1400 -- Hussite Bohemia, 1415-1436: from heresy to proto-revolution -- Lutheran Germany, 1517-1555: the Reformation as semi-revolution -- Huguenot France, 1559-1598 -- The Netherlands' revolt, 1566-1609 -- England, 1640-1660-1688: from religious to political revolution -- America, 1776-1787: revolution as great good fortune -- France, 1789-1799: revolution as militant modernity -- From the first modern revolution to the first anticipated revolution, 1799-1848: the nineteenth century at a glance -- Marxism and the Second International, 1848-1914 -- Red October: the revolution to end all revolutions -- Conclusion and epilogue -- Appendix 1. Revolution : what's in a name? -- Appendix 2. High social science and "staseology." |
Responsibility: | Martin Malia ; edited and with a foreword by Terence Emmons. |
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Abstract:
A comparative history devoted to the revolutionary tradition in the West as it evolved over many centuries and reached its logical, though extreme, culmination in the Communist revolutions of the twentieth century.
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"'A magisterial, valedictory work.' David Gress, Wall Street Journal"
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