This is an important and challenging book that will be essential reading for every student and scholar of prehistory.
Author: Clive Gamble
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781139462495
Category: Social Science
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In this study Clive Gamble presents and questions two of the most famous descriptions of change in prehistory. The first is the 'human revolution', when evidence for art, music, religion and language first appears. The second is the economic and social revolution of the Neolithic period. Gamble identifies the historical agendas behind 'origins research' and presents a bold alternative to these established frameworks, relating the study of change to the material basis of human identity. He examines, through artefact proxies, how changing identities can be understood using embodied material metaphors and in two major case-studies charts the prehistory of innovations, asking, did agriculture really change the social world? This is an important and challenging book that will be essential reading for every student and scholar of prehistory.
Origins. of. Human. Rights. Lynn. Hunt. Declarations of human rights always
make universalistic claims that resound with brave confidence. In 1948 ... Human
rights also have a paradoxical relationship to the concrete histories of revolutions
...
Author: Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0742555143
Category: Political Science
Page: 225
View: 895
Now in a revised and updated edition with added original chapters, this acclaimed book provides an interdisciplinary perspective on the complex links between revolutionary struggles and human rights. Covering events as far removed from one another as the English Civil War, the Parisian upheavals of 1789, Latin American independence struggles, and protests in late twentieth-century China, the contributors explore the paradoxes of revolutions that have both helped spur new advances in thinking about human rights and produced regimes that commit a range of abuses. Exploring the changes over time in conceptions of human rights in Western and non-Western contexts, this work offers a unique window into the history of the modern world and a fresh context for understanding today's pressing issues.
Although so- called 'revisionist' interpretations of the Revolutions began to
appear before that date, the main change of emphasis in explaining the origins
and course of the events of 1917 has been on studying the social forces which ...
Author: Alan Wood
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781134397990
Category: History
Page: 120
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Alan Wood provides a concise introduction to the Russian Revolution and its origins dating back to the emancipation of the Russian peasant serfs in 1861. The third edition of this successful pamphlet brings the historiography up to date to include the multitude of research in the last ten years that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union and the opening up of the archives.
It took Sun and his friends by surprise that the Japanese designation of “ revolution,” kakumei, was in its Chinese reading none other than ko-ming, a
familiar term but one which they had never associated with their own political
goals. To the ...
Author: Harold Schiffrin
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520017528
Category: History
Page: 412
View: 427
The enigmatic personal qualities that marked Sun Yat-sen during his lifetime have encouraged controversy concerning him ever since his death more than a generation ago. Mr. Schiffrin's book deals with the first forty years of Sun's life, and attempts to find the key to this controversial personality. His study is at once biography and history, for it goes beyond Sun to the whole texture of Chinese history of Sun's time. Drawing on diplomatic archives, police reports, personal interviews, contemporary newspapers, and other hitherto unused sources in Chinese, Japanese, and Western languages, the author reveals unsuspected facets of Sun's versatile plotting on three continents, and traces the convolutions of his pragmatic style in unprecedented detail.
(President Jimmy Carter, November 13, 1978, quoted in Alexander and Nanes
1980: 462) In most modern revolutions secular intellectuals have played leading
roles in struggles for the establishment of just and rational societies. Because
they ...
Author: Misagh Parsa
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813514126
Category: History
Page: 348
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Misagh Parsa develops a structural theory of the causes and outcomes of revolution, applying the theory in particular to Iran. He focuses on the ends and means of various groups of Iranians before, during, and after the revolution. For Parsa, revolution is not a direct result of ideologies, which may be less important than structural factors such as the nature of the state and the economy, as well as each group's interests, capacity for mobilization, autonomy, and solidarity structures. Existing theories of revolution explain earlier revolutions better than the Iranian revolution. In Iran most of the protest was in urban areas, the peasants never played a major role, and power was transferred to the clergy, not to an intelligentsia. In the 1970s, oil revenues increased, the economy developed rapidly but unevenly, and the state's expanded intervention undermined market forces and politicized capital accumulation. Systematic repression of workers, aid to the upper class, and attacks on secular and religious opposition showed that the state was serving the interests of particular groups. When the state tried to check high inflation by imposing price controls on bazaaris (merchants, shopkeepers, artisans), their protests forced the state to introduce reforms, providing an opportunity for industrial workers, white-collar workers, intellectuals, and the clergy to mobilize against the state. Thus, structural features rendered the state vulnerable to challenge and attack. Parsa's thorough explanation of the collective actions of each major group in Iran in the three decades prior to the revolution shows how a coalition of classes and groups, using mosques as safe gathering places and led by a segment of the clergy, brought down the monarch of 1979. In the years since the revolution, the conflicts that existed before the revolution seem to be reemerging, in slightly altered form. The clergy now has control, and the state has become centrally and powerfully involved in the economy of the country.
REINHARD RÜRUP The European Revolutions of 1848 and Jewish
Emancipation I In attempting to assess the ... It is not possible to understand the origins , the course and the results of revolution in any European country , except
in the ...
Author: Werner Eugen Mosse
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
ISBN: 3167437529
Category: History
Page: 431
View: 317
Schorsch -- The 1840s and the creation of the German-Jewish religious reform movement /Steven M. Lowenstein -- German-Jewish social thought in the mid-nineteenth century / Uriel Tal -- Religious dissent and tolerance in the 1840s / Hermann Greive -- Heine's portraits of German and French Jews on the eve of the 1848 Revolution / S.S Prawer -- The revolution of 1848 : Jewish emancipation in Germany and its limits / Werner E. Mosse.
This resulted in the failure of his two great projects, the Great Leap Fon/vard and
the Cultural Revolution. SOURCE. R. An excerpt from Rebellions and Revolutions, China from the 18005 to 2000 by Jack Gray, 0UP, UK, 2002, p. 378.
That Mac ...
Author: Michael Lynch
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 9781444156461
Category: History
Page: 360
View: 420
Ensure your students have access to the authoritative, in-depth and accessible content of this series for the IB History Diploma. This series for the IB History Diploma has taken the clarity, accessibility, reliability and in-depth analysis of our best-selling Access to History series and tailor-made it to better fit the IB learner's needs. Each title in the series provides depth of content, focussed on specific topics in the IB History guide, and examination guidance on different exam-style questions - helping students develop a good knowledge and understanding of the topic alongside the skills they need to do well. - Ensures students gain a good understanding of the IB History topic through an engaging, in-depth, reliable and up-to-date narrative - presented in an accessible way. - Helps students to understand historical issues and examine the evidence, through providing a wealth of relevant sources and analysis of the historiography surrounding key debates. - Gives students guidance on answering exam-style questions with model answers and practice questions
4 DO BOOKS MAKE REVOLUTIONS ? HE THREE AUTHORS WHO ACTED AS
OUR GUIDES IN chapter 1 had a ready answer to this question . They can speak
T Alexis de Tocqueville : Never before had the entire political education of a ...
Author: Roger Chartier
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822309939
Category: History
Page: 238
View: 746
Reknowned historian Roger Chartier, one of the most brilliant and productive of the younger generation of French writers and scholars now at work refashioning the Annales tradition, attempts in this book to analyze the causes of the French revolution not simply by investigating its “cultural origins” but by pinpointing the conditions that “made is possible because conceivable.” Chartier has set himself two important tasks. First, while acknowledging the seminal contribution of Daniel Mornet’s Les origens intellectuelles de la Révolution française (1935), he synthesizes the half-century of scholarship that has created a sociology of culture for Revolutionary France, from education reform through widely circulated printed literature to popular expectations of government and society. Chartier goes beyond Mornet’s work, not be revising that classic text but by raising questions that would not have occurred to its author. Chartier’s second contribution is to reexamine the conventional wisdom that there is a necessary link between the profound cultural transformation of the eighteenth century (generally characterized as the Enlightenment) and the abrupt Revolutionary rupture of 1789. The Cultural Origins of the French Revolution is a major work by one of the leading scholars in the field and is likely to set the intellectual agenda for future work on the subject.
More than a study of one national culture influencing another, this work goes to the heart of kindred intellectual processes in three European countries. Izenberg makes two persuasive and related arguments.
Author: Gerald N. Izenberg
Publisher:
ISBN: 1400812178
Category: History
Page: 356
View: 537
Studying major writers and philosophers--Schlegel and Schleiermacher in Germany, Wordsworth in England, and Chateaubriand in France--Gerald Izenberg shows how a combination of political, social, and psychological developments resulted in the modern concept of selfhood. More than a study of one national culture influencing another, this work goes to the heart of kindred intellectual processes in three European countries. Izenberg makes two persuasive and related arguments. The first is that the Romantics developed a new idea of the self as characterized by fundamentally opposing impulses: a drive to assert the authority of the self and expand that authority to absorb the universe, and the contradictory impulse to surrender to a greater idealized entity as the condition of the self's infinity. The second argument seeks to explain these paradoxes historically, showing how romantic individuality emerged as a compromise. Izenberg demonstrates how the Romantics retreated, in part, from a preliminary, radically activist ideal of autonomy they had worked out under the impact of the French Revolution. They had begun by seeing the individual self as the sole source of meaning and authority, but the convergence of crises in their personal lives with the crises of the revolution revealed this ideal as dangerously aggressive and self-aggrandizing. In reaction, the Romantics shifted their absolute claims for the self to the realm of creativity and imagination, and made such claims less dangerous by attributing totality to nature, art, lover, or state, which in return gave that totality back to the self.
Author: Andrew Stephen WalmsleyPublish On: 1998-12-01
Akers, Charles K. The Divine Politician: Samuel Cooper and the American Revolution in Boston. Boston: Northeastern UP, 1982. Anderson, Benedict.
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism.
London: ...
Author: Andrew Stephen Walmsley
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 9781479819119
Category: History
Page: 288
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Rarely in American history has a political figure been so pilloried and despised as Thomas Hutchinson, Governor of Massachusetts and an ardent loyalist of the Crown in the days leading up to the American revolution. In this narrative and analytic life of Hutchinson, the first since Bernard Bailyn's Pulitzer-Prize-winning biography a quarter century ago, Andrew Stephen Walmsley traces Hutchinson's decline from well- respected member of Boston's governing class to America's leading object of revolutionary animus. Walmsley argues that Hutchinson, rather than simply a victim of his inability to understand the passions associated with a revolutionary movement, was in fact defeated in a classic political and personal struggle for power. No mere sycophant for the British, Hutchinson was keenly aware of how much he had to lose if revolutionary forces prevailed, which partially explains his evolution from near- Whig to intransigent loyalist. His consequent vilification became a vehicle through which the growing patriot movement sought to achieve legitimacy. An entertaining and thought-provoking view of revolutionary events from the perspective of the losing side, Thomas Hutchinson and the Origins of the American Revolution tells the story of the American Revolution through the prism of one of its most famous detractors.
same time that the North American worldview obscured the origins and nature of
these challenges. This study of the U.S. impact on Cuba differs in important ways
from much of the existing literature on the origins of the revolution. From the ...
Author: Jules R. Benjamin
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691214962
Category: History
Page:
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Jules Benjamin argues convincingly that modern conflicts between Cuba and the United States stem from a long history of U.S. hegemony and Cuban resistance. He shows what difficulties the smaller country encountered because of U.S. efforts first to make it part of an "empire of liberty" and later to dominate it by economic methods, and he analyzes the kind of misreading of ardent nationalism that continues to plague U.S. policymaking.
Tom Jones , Jacobitism , and the Rise of Gothic JOHN ALLEN STEVENSON
Where should the history of the gothic ... of the Bastille by a quarter century -
would likely have remained rather inert as a model had not the Revolution across
the ...
Author: Allan Lloyd Smith
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9051836368
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 234
View: 177
Gothic: Origins and Innovations brings together nineteen papers from an international group of scholars currently researching in the field of the Gothic which take a fresh, contemporary look at the tradition from its eighteenth-century inception to the twentieth century. Topics and authors include the current usage and definition of the term 'Gothic'; the eighteenth-century rise of the genre; the Sublime; Victorian sensation fiction, and authors such as Coleridge, Mary Shelly, Maturin, LeFanu, Washington Irving, Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, John Neale, Jack London, Herman Melville, Dickens, Henry James and the movie version of his Turn of the Screw, The Innocents. This wide-ranging set of discussions brings to the subject a new set of perspectives, revising standard accounts of the origins of the genre and extending the historical and cultural contexts into which traditional literary history has tended to confine the subject. Framed by a lively and challenging introduction, the collection brings to bear a full range of contemporary critical instruments, approaches, and interdisciplinary languages, ranging from the new vocabularies of the socio-cultural to the latest debates in the psychoanalytic field. It provides a stimulating introduction to recent thinking about the Gothic.
Otherwise, the text remains substantially the same as in the first edition, and the
interpretation ofthe forces which formed the origins of the Russian Revolution
stays basically unaltered. The central thesis is still that the events of 1917 itself, ...
Author: Alan Wood
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781134852086
Category: History
Page: 80
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Looks at the roots of what has been described as the most important political event in the history of the twentieth century, from the emancipation of the serfs in 1861 to the Bolshevik uprising in 1917.
But for Mellars, the question of what initiated that revolution is still the central
issue in the current debate about modern human origins. For him (making what I
would see as a very solid Aristotelian point), a capacity for specifically human
activity ...
Author: Brendan M. Purcell
Publisher: New City Press
ISBN: 9781565484337
Category: Religion
Page: 365
View: 285
In this fascinating, accessible and thorough study, renowned priest and academic Brendan Purcell combines the latest discoveries in paleoanthropology, genetics, neuroscience, and other sciences with the insights of philosophers and theologians to address the question of the Big Bang of Human Consciousness. Purcell shows the complementarity these disciplines can bring to an understanding of the mystery of human existence.
I want instead to ground it in European political history . In this , I take my lead
from Barrington Moore ' s Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy , which
repeatedly treats rights as historical products , outcomes of struggle . In particular
...
Author: Theda Skocpol
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801486262
Category: Political Science
Page: 273
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The work of Barrington Moore, Jr., is one of the landmarks of modern social science. A distinguished roster of contributors here discusses the influence of his best-known work, Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy. Their individual perspectives combine in delineating Moore's contributions to the transformation of comparative and historical social science over the past several decades. The essays in Democracy, Revolution, and History all address substantive and methodological problems, asking questions about the different historical paths toward democratic or nondemocratic political outcomes. Following Moore's example, they use well-researched comparative cases to make their arguments. In the process, they demonstrate how vital Moore's work remains to contemporary research in the social sciences. This volume points, as well, to new frontiers of scholarship, suggesting lines of work that build upon Moore's achievements.
Internationally renowned as the greatest authority on the French Revolution, Georges Lefebvre combined impeccable scholarship with a lively writing style.
Author: Georges Lefebvre
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780203996041
Category: History
Page: 400
View: 684
Internationally renowned as the greatest authority on the French Revolution, Georges Lefebvre combined impeccable scholarship with a lively writing style. His masterly overview of the history of the French Revolution has taken its rightful place as the definitive account. A vivid narrative of events in France and across Europe is combined with acute insights into the underlying forces that created the dynamics of the revolution, as well as the personalities responsible for day-to-day decisions during this momentous period.
The modern era of revolutions, in the sense of ''rapid basic transformations of a
society's state and class structures ... accompanied and in part ... end of history;''
which is to say, there is no future beyond liberal-democratic Western capitalism.
Author: John Foran
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781134003266
Category: Political Science
Page: 328
View: 982
This volume questions whether ideas of revolution are still relevant in the postmodern and globalized world of the twenty-first century. Featuring contributions from some of the world's leading sociological and political thinkers on revolution, it combines theoretical concerns with a variety of detailed case studies of individual revolutions. Subjects covered include: democracy and revolution from 1789 to 1989 twentieth century revolutions and theories of revolution, including Marxism, modernization and structuralist theories revolution in the "Third World" and the variable geometry of the paths to modernity Islamic revolutions and modernity the 1989 revolutions as "democratic revolutions" or "elite-led transitions" globalization, the nation-state and revolution empire and "democratic revolution" network society and revolution Islamic fundamentalism, international terrorism and revolution democratic revolution as a new form of revolution postmodern theories of revolution new social movements, identities and new figures of revolution. Revolution in the Making of the Modern World will be essential reading for students and scholars of comparative politics, political theory, revolution and political sociology.
A Revolution without Revolutionaries? Peter Voss and Karl-Dieter Opp In the
extensive literature about revolutions, revolutionaries are often defined as people
or groups of people who played an exceptional role during revolutionary events.
Author: Karl-Dieter Opp
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472105752
Category: History
Page: 280
View: 656
Explains the extraordinary collapse of Communist East Germany
