Format:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 341 pages)
,
digital, PDF file(s)
ISBN:
9781316256961
Content:
All serious historical inquiry constantly encounters these major questions: what are the forces of historical change? and are there any general patterns shaping historical development? Theories of revolution have figured large in historians' explanations, yet they have remained deeply controversial, not least because of the complexity - and often ambiguity - of such notions of revolution themselves. In this book fifteen contributors, leading historians and renowned experts in particular fields or periods, examine the interpretative value of ideas of revolution for explaining historical development within their own specialism, assessing the existing historiography and offering their own personal views. The book presents a conspectus of modern historical opinion, provides a sweeping historical overview, and offers students an invaluable introduction to major questions of historiographical interpretation and controversy
Content:
Revolution / E.J. Hobsbawm -- Revolution in antiquity / M.I. Finley -- Social devolution and revolution: Ta Thung and Thai Phing / Joseph Needham -- The bourgeois revolution of 1848-9 in Central Europe / Arnošt Klíma -- Socialist revolution in Central Europe, 1917-21 / T. Hajdu -- Imperialism and revolution / Victor Kiernan -- Socio-economic revolution in England and the origin of the modern world / Alan MacFarlane -- Agrarian and industrial revolutions / William N. Parker -- On revolution and the printed word / Elizabeth L. Eisenstein -- Revolution in popular culture / Peter Burke -- Revolution in music- music in revolution / Ernst Wangermann -- Revolution and the visual arts / Ronald Paulson -- Revolution and technology / Akos Paulinyi -- The scientific revolution: a spoke in the wheel? / Roy Porter -- The scientific-technical revolution: an historical event in the twentieth century / Mikuláš Teich
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521259781
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521277846
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780521259781
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9781316256961
URL:
Volltext
(lizenzpflichtig)
URL:
Volltext
(lizenzpflichtig)
Author information:
Porter, Roy 1946-2002
