This Fifth Edition is revised and updated with a new chapter on the Arab Revolution from its beginning in December 2010 to the present.

Who were the leading protagonists? Are revolutionary pasts remembered critically in national history, mythologized, or even hidden? And why?

This volume provides a brief but comprehensive introduction to the nature of revolutions and their role in global history"--

Taken together, the contributors' and editors' work shows that the end of the cold war does not signal the end of revolution and that with proper attention to certain conditions and factors, revolutionary “surprises''—such as those in ...

This expanded, updated edition of Revolutions offers a new chapter on terrorism and on social movements, including jihadism.

The Encyclopedia of Political Revolutions is an important reference work that describes revolutionary events that have affected and often changed the course of history.

Considering what has been described as an Age of Revolutions, Black assesses a formative period in world history by examining the North American, European, Haitian and Latin American Revolutions.

This book, as the first volume of a multiple volume endeavor to analyze several revolutions of the “long” nineteenth and “short” twentieth century to show how revolutionary processes evolved, takes a closer look at the Atlantic ...