Revolution Radicalism And Reform

Author : Richard Brown
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521567886
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Revolution, Radicalism and Reform written by Richard Brown and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-10-26 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging range of period texts and theme books for AS and A Level history. The years between the rise of William Pitt in the early 1780s and the repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846 saw Britain struggle with political and social tensions caused by the economic changes that began in the mid-eighteenth century. Changes in attitudes towards who could vote, how the poor should be treated, how towns should be governed and how popular protest should be conducted led to confrontations between different segments of society. Yet Britain escaped revolution. Resistance, radicalism and reform. Richard Brown explores key issues which help explain these developments of the period.

Author : John L. Esposito
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781555872625
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Islam written by John L. Esposito and published by Lynne Rienner Pub. This book was released on 1997 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For more than a decade, policymakers and observers in the Muslim world and the West have struggled with the specter of political Islam -- or "Islamic fundamentalism"--Often confounded by myriad and contradictory images. This book offers a thorough, objective examination of the impact of political Islam on domestic and international politics in countries ranging from North Africa to South Asia. Covering both governments and Islamic movements and organizations, the authors analyze the multifaceted nature and dynamics of contemporary Islamic politics in the context of three perspectives: the struggle between governments and illegal opposition; Islam within the political process; and the international relations of political Islam. They make a seminal contribution to the understanding of a phenomenon that incorporates extremists as well as moderates, and demagogues as well as representative populist movements." -- Publisher description.

Author : Catherine Lynch
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739165747
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Radicalism, Revolution, and Reform in Modern China written by Catherine Lynch and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2011-03-31 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume illuminates the relationship of China's radical past to its reformist present as China makes a way forward through very differently conceived and contested visions of the future. In the context of early twenty-first century problems and the failures of global capitalism, is China's history of revolutionary socialism an aberration that is soon to be forgotten, or can it serve as a resource for creating a more fully human and radically democratic China with implications for all of us? Ranging from the early years of China's revolutionary twentieth-century to the present, the essays collected here look at the past and present of China with a view toward better understanding the ideas, ideals, and people who have dared to imagine radical transformation of their worlds and to assess the conceptual, political, and social limitations of these visions and their implementations. The volume's chapters focus on these issues from a range of vantage points, representing a spectrum of current scholarship. The first half of the book brings new insights to understanding how early-twentieth century intellectuals interpreted ideas that allowed them to break with China's past and to envision new paths to a modern future. It treats of Chen Duxiu, a founder of the Communist party, Mao Zedong, and Mao in relation to the non-Communist Liang Shuming and with the Dalai Lama. With continuing threads of nation and nationalities, of peasants, utopias and dystopias linking the chapters, the book's second half looks broadly at the consequences of the implementations of radical ideas, at the same time critiquing our accepted frameworks of analysis. Moving up to the present, the book investigates the effects of the reforms since the 1980s on long-term environmental degradation and on the emergence of a capitalist rural economy. It gives an unsparing view into contemporary rural China through independent films. The book concludes with an analysis of the unshakable persistence of the shibboleth, 'the rise of China,' in popular and academic imagination and argues for the importance instead of taking seriously the twentieth-century history of radicalism in China and its significance for understanding China's present and its future potentials.

Author : Marc Blecher
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780826464217
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China Against the Tides written by Marc Blecher and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition argues that, in both Mao and Deng periods, China has evolved in ways quite different from the Soviet model and from other developing countries. Like its predecessor, the book's approach is interdisciplinary and comparative. Professor Blecher analyzes China by introducing appropriate theories and concepts from historical and political sociology, economic development and political science. He explores China from two comparative perspectives: developing countries (including the newly industrializing countries of East Asia) and historical state socialist regimes. The book's chapters cover: imperial collapse, republican failure and communist triumph; a chronological overview since 1949; the state and politics; socialism and society; rural political economy; urban political economy; China and the Pacific Rim; the crisis of reform; and the future of Chinese economic development and politics. From PETRA: Blecher's new edition will revise and update the first, adding a new section on international economic factors to the political economy chapters - to include the WTO, gloablization, foreign investment etc. It will address new policy problems such as the spread of AIDS in China and will look at Hong Kong and Macau's return, and at the relationship with Taiwan. The Chinese diaspora is also covered.

Author : J. R. Dinwiddy
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1852850620
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book RADICALISM & REFORM IN BRITAIN, 1780-1850 written by J. R. Dinwiddy and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together the articles of J.R. Dinwiddy to show both the coherence and importance of his contribution to British history in this period. His work covers the spectrum of political activity and thought from the Whigs to the Luddites and from Burke via Bentham to Marx.

Author : Colin Bonwick
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469610442
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English Radicals and the American Revolution written by Colin Bonwick and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bonwick brings together related elements that have been treated separately on previous occasions--English radicals as personalities, their relations with one another, their connections with Americans; the imperial controversy between England and the colonies; the movement for parliamentary reform in England; and the campaign for civil rights for Dissenters. The study brings fresh meaning to English radicalism and ideas about liberty during the revolutionary era. Originally published 1977. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Author : Suzanne Pepper
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521778602
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Radicalism and Education Reform in 20th-Century China written by Suzanne Pepper and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-07-10 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive book to cover the whole sweep of twentieth-century Chinese education.

Author : Kai Hafez
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139489046
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Radicalism and Political Reform in the Islamic and Western Worlds written by Kai Hafez and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last decade, political Islam has been denounced in the Western media and in the surrounding literature as a terrorist or fascist movement that is entirely at odds with Western democratic ideology. Kai Hafez's book overturns these arguments, contending that, despite its excesses, as a radical form of political opposition the movement plays a central role in the processes of democratization and modernization, and that these processes have direct parallels in the history and politics of the West. By analyzing the evolution of Christian democratization through the upheavals of the Reformation, colonisation, fascism, and totalitarianism, the book shows how radicalism and violence were constant accompaniments to political change, and that these components - despite assertions to the contrary - are still part of Western political culture to this day.

Author : Glenn Burgess
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521800174
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English Radicalism, 1550-1850 written by Glenn Burgess and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-02 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of three centuries of radical ideas and activity in English political and social history.

Author : Paul Mattick
Publisher : Pattern Books
ISBN 13 : 7172254236
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reform and Revolution written by Paul Mattick and published by Pattern Books. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reform and Revolution (otherwise known as Reform or Revolution) is a collection of chapters from Marxism: The Last Refuge of the Bourgeoisie?, a book by Paul Mattick, Sr. arranged and published posthumously by Paul Mattick, Jr. In Reform and Revolution, Mattick, Sr. relates understanding of reformism, radicalism, and revolutionary action through the lens of historical materialism, as reformism being another maintaining of capitalist form. Through the book, Mattick details that capitalism and the historical process is to be analyzed through the accumulation of capital maintained through social forces of production, rationalizing labor exploitation towards its expansion. "As capital expands, so does the working class." Paul Mattick, Sr. (March 13, 1904 - February 7, 1981) was a Marxist political writer and social revolutionary, whose thought can be placed within the council communist and left communist traditions.