Revolution and rebellion in the early modern world

Revolution and rebellion in the early modern world / Jack A. Goldstone.

Publisher description: What can the great crises of the past teach us about contemporary revolutions? Arguing from an exciting and original perspective, Goldstone suggests that great revolutions were the product of 'ecological crises' that occurred when inflexible political, economic, and...

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Main Author: Goldstone, Jack A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1991.
Subjects:
Geschichte.
Revolutions > History.
History, Modern.
State, The > History.
International cooperation.
Medical care.
Sociology.
Public health.
Demography.
Social change.
Population.
Social sciences.
Economics.
Politics, Practical.
Psychology.
behavioral sciences.
sociology.
public health.
demography.
population.
social sciences.
economics.
politics.
HISTORY > Revolutionary.
Sociology
Social sciences
Social change
Public health
Population
Politics, Practical
Medical care
International cooperation
Economics
Demography
History, Modern
Revolutions
State, The
Revolution
Politische Krise
Revoluties.
Histoire moderne et contemporaine.
Révolutions > Histoire.
État.
Revolutioner > historia.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. The central problem : how to explain the periodic waves of state breakdown in the early modern world
  • 2. State breakdown in early modern Europe : the English Revolution
  • 3. State breakdown in early modern Europe : the French Revolution
  • 4. State breakdown in early modern Asia : the Ottoman crisis and the Ming-Qing transition
  • 5. Ideology, cultural frameworks, revolutioary struggles, and state reconstruction
  • 6. From past to present
  • Appendix. Compiling French and English national income and tax tables.

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