Revolution : structure and meaning in world history /: structure and meaning in world history. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Saïd Amir Arjomand.
• Authors: Arjomand, Said Amir
• Contents: Introduction: revolution in comparative and historical sociology -- The Akkadian constitutive revolution and the establishment of universal monarch in Mesopotamia -- The Athenian constitutive revolution and subsequent revolutions of ancient Greece -- Revolution in the Roman Republic -- Revolution in the Roman Principate and its transformation into imperial constitutional autocracy -- The last Roman integrative revolution -- Rise of the Sasanian empire: a feudal integrative revolution in late antiquity -- Rise of Islam: the constitutive revolution of late antiquity -- Islam's integrative social revolution -- The papal revolution and its export: the Crusades -- The Mongolian integrative revolution in eurasia -- Conclusion: world-historical and theoretical significance of premodern revolutions -- Epilogue: revolutions of the last hundred years in the light of my typology -- Conclusion.
• Publisher Details: Chicago London : The University of Chicago Press
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 303.6/4; Revolutions -- History -- To 1500; Revolutions -- Philosophy; Revolutions; Revolutions -- Philosophy; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General; History; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780226026848; 0226026841
• Related ISBNs: 9780226026831; 0226026833
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 22, 2019).
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