The concept of bourgeois revolution has been widely disparaged by many historians. It has been replaced by approaches which highlight national cultural specificities, the ideals motivating the founders of different nation-states, and the gap between these ideals and their application to citizens and subjects. This fragmentation of approaches has stirred many debates and controversies among historians and social scientists. Davidson's book is a critical contribution to these debates. The author defends a renovated conceptualization of bourgeois revolution, one which both accounts for its variability across space and time while defending the concept's essence: that the globalized economy of the present is the result of a turbulent, contested process marked by often dramatic political and social revolutions directed against pre-capitalist economic structures.
- ISBN10 160846265X
- ISBN13 9781608462650
- Publish Date 24 July 2012
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Haymarket Books
- Format eBook
- Pages 840
- Language English