Bailey Stone

Rethinking Revolutionary Change in Europe (eBook, ePUB)

A Neostructuralist Approach

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Reconsidering the English, French, and Russian Revolutions, this book offers an important new approach to the theoretical and comparative study of revolutions. Bailey Stone proposes an innovative "neostructuralist" integration of competing structuralist and postmodernist theory. Providing a balanced and nuanced critique of both sides, he presents new ways of understanding radical change in the European polities that created the concept-and the dramatic realities-of modern revolution. He focuses on the central issues of modernizers versus traditionalists, old regime bourgeoisies, regicides, terror, and state legitimacy. By reconciling political and cultural theories of revolutionary causation and process, Stone's synthesis marks a critical advance in our understanding of revolution.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781538131381
• Artikelnr.: 58487961

Autorenporträt

Bailey Stone is an Emeritus Professor of European History and International Affairs and taught primarily at the University of Houston. Currently, Bailey Stone works in the Five Colleges Associates Program at Amherst, MA, and has been a member of the Five Colleges International Relations Seminar at Amherst.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Structuralism, Postmodernism, and-Neostructuralism?
1 Modernizers versus Traditionalists in the European Revolutions
2 In Search of the Elusive Ancien Régime Bourgeoisie
3 To Kill a Monarch: From Proceduralism to Revolutionary Raison d'État
4 Circumstances versus Ideas in the Revolutionary "Furies"
5 Crises of Revolutionary Legitimacy: Thermidorian Outcomes
Conclusion: Neostructuralism and the Postrevolutionary State as Historical
Problem
Suggestions for Further Reading
Notes
Index