Revolutionary World
Global Upheaval in the Modern Age

The first truly global history of revolutions and revolutionary waves in the modern age, from Atlantic Revolutions to Arab Spring.

David Motadel (Edited by)

9781316648179, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 25 March 2021

285 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm, 0.45 kg

'Motadel's anthology can further 'contribute to our understanding of territoriality in the history of revolutionary upheavals' and also show how revolutions spread in waves in different geographical and temporal contexts.' Frank Jacob, Rezensionen

Throughout the modern age, revolutions have spread across state borders, engulfing entire regions, continents, and, at times, the globe. Revolutionary World examines the spread of upheavals during the major revolutionary moments in modern history: the Atlantic Revolutions, Europe's 1848 revolts, the commune movement of the 1870s, the 1905-15 upheavals in Asia, the communist revolutions around 1917, the 'Wilsonian' uprisings of 1919, the 'Third World' revolutions, the global Islamic revolt of 1978-79, the events of 1989, and the rise and fall of the 'Arab Spring'. The chapters explore the nature of these revolutionary waves, tracing the exchange of radical ideas and the movements of revolutionaries around the world. Bringing together a group of distinguished historians, Revolutionary World shows that the major revolutions of the modern age, which have so often been studied as isolated national or imperial events, were almost never contained within state borders and were usually part of broader revolutionary moments.

Acknowledgements
List of Figures
List of Contributor
Introduction
Global Revolution David Motadel
1. The Atlantic Revolutions David A. Bell
2. The Revolutionary Waves of 1848 Christopher Clark
3. The World of the Paris Commune Quentin Deluermoz
4. The Global Wave of Constitutional Revolutions 1905–1915 Charles Kurzman
5. The Global Red Revolution Rachel G. Hoffman
6. The Wilsonian Uprisings of 1919 Erez Manela
7. The Third World Revolutions Odd Arne Westad
8. The Global Islamic Revolution Abbas Amana
9. The Anticommunist Revolts of 1989 John Connelly
10. The Arab Uprisings James Gelvin
Afterword: Islands of Global Revolution Anne Eller
Index.

Subject Areas: Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions [HBTV], 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 [HBLW], General & world history [HBG]