Revolutionary Europe 1789 1989

Author : David Stewart Mason
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Pub Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780742537682
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Revolutionary Europe, 1789-1989 written by David Stewart Mason and published by Rowman & Littlefield Pub Incorporated. This book was released on 2005 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlighting the key events, ideas, and individuals that have shaped modern Europe, this fresh and lively book provides a concise history of the continent from the Enlightenment to the integration of the European Union. Drawing on the enduring theme of revolution, David S. Mason explores the causes and consequences of revolution: political, economic, and scientific; the development of human rights; and issues of European identity and integration. He deliberately avoids a detailed chronology of every country and time period by emphasizing the most crucial events in shaping contemporary Europe. Fourteen focused chapters address such topical issues as the Enlightenment; the French Revolution and Napoleon; the Industrial Revolution; the theories and impact of Marx and Darwin; the revolutions of 1848, 1917, and 1989; the unifications of Germany and Italy; European imperialism; the two World Wars; the Cold War; and the evolution and expansion of the European Union. Any reader who wants to view the broad sweep of European history will find this book an engaging narrative.

Author : Piotr H. Kosicki
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 9633862841
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Long 1989 written by Piotr H. Kosicki and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-14 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fall of communism in Europe is now the frame of reference for any mass mobilization, from the Arab Spring to the Occupy movement to Brexit. Even thirty years on, 1989 still figures as a guide and motivation for political change. It is now a platitude to call 1989 a "world event," but the chapters in this volume show how it actually became one. The authors of these nine essays consider how revolutionary events in Europe resonated years later and thousands of miles away: in China and South Africa, Chile and Afghanistan, Turkey and the USA. They trace the circulation of people, practices, and concepts that linked these countries, turning local developments into a global phenomenon. At the same time, they examine the many shifts that revolution underwent in transit. All nine chapters detail the process of mutation, adaptation, and appropriation through which foreign affairs found new meanings on the ground. They interrogate the uses and understandings of 1989 in particular national contexts, often many years after the fact. Taken together, this volume asks how the fall of communism in Europe became the basis for revolutionary action around the world, proposing a paradigm shift in global thinking about revolution and protest.

Author : Geoffrey Best
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Permanent Revolution written by Geoffrey Best and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kevin McDermott
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526103478
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The 1989 Revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe written by Kevin McDermott and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important book reassesses a defining historical, political and ideological moment in contemporary history: the 1989 revolutions in central and eastern Europe. Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, the authors reconsider such crucial themes as the broader historical significance of the 1989 events, the complex interaction between external and internal factors in the origins and outcomes of the revolutions, the impact of the ‘Gorbachev phenomenon’, the West and the end of the Cold War, the political and socio-economic determinants of the revolutionary processes in Poland, Hungary, the German Democratic Republic, Czechoslovakia, Romania and Bulgaria, and the competing academic, cultural and ideological perceptions of the year 1989 as communism gave way to post-communist pluralism in the 1990s and beyond. Concluding that the contentious term ‘revolution’ is indeed apt for the momentous developments in eastern Europe in 1989, this book will be essential reading for undergraduates, postgraduates and specialists alike.

Author : Asa Briggs
Publisher : Addison Wesley Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Europe 1789-1989 written by Asa Briggs and published by Addison Wesley Publishing Company. This book was released on 1997 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Europe provides both text and illustrations which draw on a wide range of sources, from state archives, published memoirs and heroic paintings to private letters, oral testimony, picture postcards, cartoons and songs.

Author : Krishan Kumar
Publisher : Choice Publishing Co., Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780816634538
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 1989 written by Krishan Kumar and published by Choice Publishing Co., Ltd.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1989, from East Berlin to Budapest and Bucharest to Moscow, communism was falling. The walls were coming down and the world was being changed in ways that seemed entirely new. The conflict of ideas and ideals that began with the French Revolution of 1789 culminated in these revolutions, which raised the prospects of the "return to Europe" of East and Central European nations, the "restarting of their history," even, for some, the "end of history." What such assertions and aspirations meant, and what the larger events that inspired them mean-not just for the world of history and politics, but for our very understanding of that world-are the questions Krishan Kumar explores in 1989. A well-known and widely respected scholar, Kumar places these revolutions of 1989 in the broadest framework of political and social thought, helping us see how certain ideas, traditions, and ideological developments influenced or accompanied these movements-and how they might continue to play out. Asking questions about some of the central dilemmas facing modern society in the new century, Kumar offers critical insight into how these questions might be answered and how political, social, and historical ideas and ideals can shape our destiny. Contradictions Series, volume 12

Author : Robert Darnton
Publisher : Baylor University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What was Revolutionary about the French Revolution? written by Robert Darnton and published by Baylor University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Darnton offers a reasoned defense of what the French revolutionaries were trying to achieve and urges us to look beyond political events to understand the idealism and universality of their goals.

Author : Eric J. Hobsbawm
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Age of Revolution written by Eric J. Hobsbawm and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : E. J. Hobsbawm
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780758161468
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Age of Revolution written by E. J. Hobsbawm and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Krishan Kumar
Publisher : Contradictions (Hardcover)
ISBN 13 : 9780816634521
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 1989 written by Krishan Kumar and published by Contradictions (Hardcover). This book was released on 2001 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1989, from East Berlin to Budapest and Bucharest to Moscow, communism was falling. The walls were coming down and the world was being changed in ways that seemed entirely new. The conflict of ideas and ideals that began with the French Revolution of 1789 culminated in these revolutions, which raised the prospects of the "return to Europe" of East and Central European nations, the "restarting of their history," even, for some, the "end of history." What such assertions and aspirations meant, and what the larger events that inspired them mean-not just for the world of history and politics, but for our very understanding of that world-are the questions Krishan Kumar explores in 1989. A well-known and widely respected scholar, Kumar places these revolutions of 1989 in the broadest framework of political and social thought, helping us see how certain ideas, traditions, and ideological developments influenced or accompanied these movements-and how they might continue to play out. Asking questions about some of the central dilemmas facing modern society in the new century, Kumar offers critical insight into how these questions might be answered and how political, social, and historical ideas and ideals can shape our destiny. Contradictions Series, volume 12