Revolutions

How they changed history and what they mean today

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• Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd
• Year: 2020
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9780500775554
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

Revolutions hold a distinct place in the popular imagination. This may be because their rhetoric, such as liberty, fraternity, equality, articulates aspirations with which we identify; or because we are shocked by the destructive forces unleashed when social conventions break down. Yet each revolution is unique a product of its time, its society, its people and the outcomes vary dramatically, from liberal reform to cruel dictatorship. Twenty-four leading historians, each writing about their country of origin, consider revolutions from Englands Glorious Revolution of 1688 to the Arab Spring of 2011, reflecting not only on their causes, crises and outcomes, but also their long-term legacies and their changing, sometimes contested, meanings today. They reflect on key questions, such as: What were the reasons for the revolution? What were the main events and dominant ideologies, and who were the leading protagonists? How is it considered today and what is its ideological legacy? Whether as inspiration or warning, the legacies of these revolutions are not only important to those interested in protest, political change and the power of the people but also impact on virtually every one of us today.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• About the Author
• Other titles of interest
• Contents
• Introduction
• The English Revolution 1642–1689
• The American Revolution 1776–1788
• The French Revolution 1789–1799
• The Haitian Revolution 1791–1804
• The Year of Revolutions 1848
• Japan: The Meiji Restoration 1868
• Plates One
• The Young Turk Revolution 1908
• The Mexican Revolution 1910–1917
• The Irish Revolution 1913–1923
• The Russian Revolution 1917
• The Indian Revolution 1947
• Vietnam: The August Revolution 1945
• China: The Communist Revolution 1949–1976
• The Cuban Revolution 1959–2006
• The Student Revolution 1968
• Portugal: The Carnation Revolution 1974
• Cambodia: The Khmer Rouge Revolution 1975–1979
• The Iranian Revolution 1979
• Plates Two
• Nicaragua: The Sandinista Revolution 1979
• Poland: Solidarity 1980
• Eastern Europe 1989
• South Africa: The End of Apartheid 1990–1994
• Ukraine: The Orange Revolution 2004–2014
• The Arab Spring: Egypt 2011
• Further Reading
• Contributors
• Sources of Illustrations
• Index
• Copyright