Rethinking Revolutionary Change in Europe - A Neostructuralist Approach

Reconsidering the English, French, and Russian Revolutions, this book offers an important approach to the theoretical and comparative study of revolutions. Stone proposes an innovative "neostructuralist" synthesis of competing structuralist and postmodernist theory that marks a critical advance in our understanding of revolution.

List of contents

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

About the author

By Bailey Stone

Product details

• Authors: Bailey Stone
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9781538163870
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-6387-0
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; France, Russia, European History, HISTORY / Europe / France, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714), British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, History of specific lands, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, C 1600 To C 1700, The Restoration & Later Stuart era (1660–1714), History of other lands, HISTORY / Russia / General, HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions, Jacobean & Early Stuart era (1603–1649)