Neil Davidson

We Cannot Escape History

States and Revolutions

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Produktbeschreibung

The latest collection of essays from the Deutscher Prize winning Marxist scholar, Neil Davidson.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: HAYMARKET BOOKS
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 147mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9781608464678
• ISBN-10: 1608464679
• Artikelnr.: 41625318

Autorenporträt

Neil Davidson: Neil Davidson is the author of The Origins of Scottish Nationhood (2000), Discovering the Scottish Revolution (2003), for which he was awarded the Deutscher Prize, and How Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois Revolutions? (2012). Davidson lectures in Sociology in the School of Political and Social Science at the University of Glasgow, Scotland.

Inhaltsangabe

We Cannot Escape History: Nations, States and Revolutions
Part 1: Nations and States
1. The Trouble with 'Ethnicity'
2. What is National Consciousness?
3. From National Consciousness to Nation-states
4. Two Replies to John Foster:
Stalinism, 'Nation Theory', and Scottish History
The Public Memoirs and Confessions of an Unconscious Weberian
5. The Necessity of Multiple Nation-States for Capital [incorporating 'Many
Capitals. Many States']
Part 2: States and Revolutions
6. Asiatic, Tributary or Absolutist?
7. Centuries of Transition
8. How Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois Revolutions?
9. When History Failed to Turn
10. The French Revolution is Not Over
11. Scotland: Birthplace of Passive Revolution?
12. The American Civil War Considered as a Bourgeois Revolution
13 Revolutions in Theory and History: a Reply to Alex Callinicos and Donny
Gluckstein