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Document Type: | Book |
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Chalmers Ashby Johnson |
ISBN: | 0804711445 9780804711449 0804711453 9780804711456 |
OCLC Number: | 251351828 |
Description: | vii, 217 Seiten ; 23 cm |
Contents: | 1. Revolution: the implications of a political concept; 2. The social system: coercion and values; 3. The social system: structure and function; 4. The disequilibrated social system; 5. Revolution; 6. Varieties of revolution; 7. Strategies of revolution; 8. Terrorism; 9. Theories of revolution; Notes; Index. |
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'A penetrating, illuminating, and gratifying concise attempt to bring some order out of chaos . ... This is one of the handful of books published each year that should be read by every person concerned with man's social and political behaviour. ... The book is as much indebted to current thought in anthropology, economics, sociology, and social psychology as to that in political science; and its reliance upon the insights of classical political philosophers such as Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Rousseau is also profound and explicitly stated. It is in his ability to combine meaningfully a large number of divergent theories and philosophies and to direct them toward the explanation of a particular phenomenon that Johnson is especially successful.' Charles F. MacCormack, Journal of International Affairs Read more...

