John Foran

Taking Power

On the Origins of Third World Revolutions

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Produktbeschreibung

This book analyzes the causes behind some three dozen revolutions in the Third World between 1910 and the present.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 410
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 663g
• ISBN-13: 9780521629843
• ISBN-10: 0521629845
• Artikelnr.: 21225904

Autorenporträt

John Foran is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he is also involved with the programs on Islamic and Near Eastern Studies, Latin American and Iberian Studies, and Women, Culture, and Development. His books include Fragile Resistance: Social Transformation in Iran from 1500 to the Revolution (1993), A Century of Revolution: Social Movements in Iran (1994), and Theorizing Revolutions (1997).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. Perspectives: 1. Theorizing revolutions
Part II. Revolutionary Success: 2. The great social revolutions
3. The closest cousins: the great anti-colonial revolutions
Part III. Revolutionary Failure: 4. The greatest tragedies: reversed revolutions
5. The great contrasts: attempts, political revolutions, and non-attempts
Part IV. Conclusions: 6. The past and future of revolutions.