History's locomotives : revolutions and the making of the modern world /
This book is 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. Unique in the breadth of its scope, "History's Locomotives&quo...
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| Language: | English |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
©2006.
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| ISBN: | 9780300135282 0300135289 0300113919 9780300113914 |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.