Beschreibung:
The first truly global history of revolutions and revolutionary waves in the modern age, Revolutionary World brings together some of the world's leading historians to explore the origins, course and consequences of the major revolutionary moments in modern history, from the Atlantic Revolutions to the Arab Spring.
Acknowledgements; List of Figures; List of Contributor; Introduction; Global Revolution David Motadel; 1. The Atlantic Revolutions David A. Bell; 2. The Revolutionary Waves of 1848 Christopher Clark; 3. The World of the Paris Commune Quentin Deluermoz; 4. The Global Wave of Constitutional Revolutions 1905-1915 Charles Kurzman; 5. The Global Red Revolution Rachel G. Hoffman; 6. The Wilsonian Uprisings of 1919 Erez Manela; 7. The Third World Revolutions Odd Arne Westad; 8. The Global Islamic Revolution Abbas Amana; 9. The Anticommunist Revolts of 1989 John Connelly; 10. The Arab Uprisings James Gelvin; Afterword: Islands of Global Revolution Anne Eller; Index.