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Scripting Revolution : A Historical Approach to the Comparative Study of Revolutions.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Redwood City : Stanford University Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (449 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780804796194
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Scripting RevolutionDDC classification:
  • 321.09/4
LOC classification:
  • JC491
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction - Keith Michael Baker and Dan Edelstein -- Part I: Genealogies of Revolution -- Did the English Have a Script for Revolution in the Seventeenth Century? - Tim Harris -- God's Revolutions: England, Europe, and the Concept of Revolution in the Mid-seventeenth Century - David R. Como -- Every Great Revolution Is a Civil War - David Armitage -- Part II: Writing the Modern Revolutionary Script -- Revolutionizing Revolution - Keith Michael Baker -- Constitutionalism: The Happiest Revolutionary Script - Jack Rakove -- From Constitutional to Permanent Revolution: 1649 and 1793 - Dan Edelstein -- Scripting the French Revolution, Inventing the Terror: Marat's Assassination and its Interpretations - Guillaume Mazeau -- The Antislavery Script: Haiti's Place in the Narrative of Atlantic Revolution - Malick W. Ghachem -- Part III: Rescripting the Revolution -- Scripting the German Revolution: Marx and 1848 - Gareth Stedman Jones -- Reading and Repeating the Revolutionary Script: Revolutionary Mimicry in Nineteenth-Century France - Dominica Chang -- "Une Révolution Vraiment Scientifique": Russian Terrorism, the Escape from the European Orbit, and the Invention of a New Revolutionary Paradigm - Claudia Verhoeven -- Scripting the Russian Revolution - Ian D. Thatcher -- Part IV: Revolutionary Projections -- You Say You Want a Revolution: Revolutionary and Reformist Scripts in China, 1894-2014 - Jeffrey Wasserstrom and Yidi Wu -- Mao's Little Red Book: The Spiritiual Atom Bomb and Its Global Fallout - Alexander C. Cook -- The Reel, Real and Hyper-Real Revolution: Scripts and Counter-Scripts in Cuban Documentary Film - Lillian Guerra -- Writing on the Wall: 1968 as Event and Representation - Julian Bourg -- Scripting a Revolution: Fate or Fortuna in the 1979 Revolution in Iran - Abbas Milani.
The Multiple Scripts of the Arab Revolutions - Silvana Toska -- Afterword - David A. Bell -- Contributors -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: This volume of essays proposes a new, historical approach to the comparative study of revolutions by exploring the ways in which they create, inherit, or extend recognizable scripts for political action and social action.
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction - Keith Michael Baker and Dan Edelstein -- Part I: Genealogies of Revolution -- Did the English Have a Script for Revolution in the Seventeenth Century? - Tim Harris -- God's Revolutions: England, Europe, and the Concept of Revolution in the Mid-seventeenth Century - David R. Como -- Every Great Revolution Is a Civil War - David Armitage -- Part II: Writing the Modern Revolutionary Script -- Revolutionizing Revolution - Keith Michael Baker -- Constitutionalism: The Happiest Revolutionary Script - Jack Rakove -- From Constitutional to Permanent Revolution: 1649 and 1793 - Dan Edelstein -- Scripting the French Revolution, Inventing the Terror: Marat's Assassination and its Interpretations - Guillaume Mazeau -- The Antislavery Script: Haiti's Place in the Narrative of Atlantic Revolution - Malick W. Ghachem -- Part III: Rescripting the Revolution -- Scripting the German Revolution: Marx and 1848 - Gareth Stedman Jones -- Reading and Repeating the Revolutionary Script: Revolutionary Mimicry in Nineteenth-Century France - Dominica Chang -- "Une Révolution Vraiment Scientifique": Russian Terrorism, the Escape from the European Orbit, and the Invention of a New Revolutionary Paradigm - Claudia Verhoeven -- Scripting the Russian Revolution - Ian D. Thatcher -- Part IV: Revolutionary Projections -- You Say You Want a Revolution: Revolutionary and Reformist Scripts in China, 1894-2014 - Jeffrey Wasserstrom and Yidi Wu -- Mao's Little Red Book: The Spiritiual Atom Bomb and Its Global Fallout - Alexander C. Cook -- The Reel, Real and Hyper-Real Revolution: Scripts and Counter-Scripts in Cuban Documentary Film - Lillian Guerra -- Writing on the Wall: 1968 as Event and Representation - Julian Bourg -- Scripting a Revolution: Fate or Fortuna in the 1979 Revolution in Iran - Abbas Milani.

The Multiple Scripts of the Arab Revolutions - Silvana Toska -- Afterword - David A. Bell -- Contributors -- Notes -- Index.

This volume of essays proposes a new, historical approach to the comparative study of revolutions by exploring the ways in which they create, inherit, or extend recognizable scripts for political action and social action.

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