Revolutions and history : an essay in interpretation

Author(s)

• Parker, Noel

Bibliographic Information

Revolutions and history : an essay in interpretation

Noel Parker

Polity Press, 1999

• : hbk
• : pbk

Note

Bibliographical references: p. [211]-226

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This book offers a fresh framework for the historical understanding of revolutions and ideas about revolution.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements. ntroduction: Meanings of Revolution in Time and Space. Part I: How Revolutions Happen:. 1. Revolutions in Past History. 2. Why Revolutions have Occurred. 3. The Trend in Revolutions. 4. Revolutions and Modernity in the Twentieth Century. Part II: Why Revolutions Matter: . 5. Revolutions and Historical Change: the 'Revolutionary Narrative'. 6. The Revolutionary Narrative in History. 7. The Revolutionary Narrative at the End of the Twentieth Century. Appendix: Revolutions and the Understanding of History. Notes. References. Index.

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Details

• NCID: BA44433337
• ISBN:
  • 0745611354
  • 0745611362
• LCCN: 99010927
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cambridge, UK
• Pages/Volumes: vi, 232 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • NDC9 : 316.5
  • LCC : D16.9
  • DC21 : 303.6/4/09
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Revolutions -- History
  • LCSH : History -- Philosophy