Revolutions and History: An Essay in InterpretationISBN: 978-0-7456-1135-8
Hardcover
240 pages
January 1991, Polity
Other Available Formats: Paperback
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'Revolutions and History combines the virtues of two very
different kinds of study. It is a lucid, concise and reliable guide
through the forest of literature on the subject: an ideal
introduction for students. It is also a wide-ranging essay full of
original ideas on topics as diverse as world-system theory and the
effects of what the author describes as 'the revolutionary
narrative'. I don't know of any book which so skilfully combines
history with theory in a study of revolution.' Peter Burke,
Emmanuel College, Cambridge
'[Covers] the topic from its beginnings in modern European history up to the present. Parker has more in mind than a mere typology. He wishes also to give a structural-analytic explanation of revolutions, along with a hermeneutically inflected history of their appearance over time.' American Historical Review