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Taking power : on the origins of third world revolutions
Author
Title
Taking power : on the origins of third world revolutions / John Foran.
ISBN
0521620090
9780521620093
0521629845
9780521629843
Published
Cambridge, UK. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Physical Description
xiii, 395 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Summary
"Taking Power analyzes the causes behind some three dozen revolutions in the Third World between 1910 and the present. It advances a new theory that seeks to integrate the political, economic, and cultural factors that brought these revolutions about, and that links structural theorizing with original ideas on culture and agency. It attempts to explain why so few revolutions have succeeded, and so many have failed."--Jacket.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 25, 2018
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-380) and index.
Contents
1. Theorizing revolutions
2. The great social revolutions
3. The closest cousins : the great anti-colonial revolutions
4. The greatest tragedies : reversed revolutions
5. The great contrasts : attempts, political revolutions, and non-attempts
6. The past and future of revolutions.
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
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