Revolutionary City (eBook)

Urbanization and the Global Transformation of Rebellion

Mark R. Beissinger (Autor)

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2022
592 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-22475-6 (ISBN)

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How and why cities have become the predominant sites for revolutionary upheavals in the contemporary worldExamining the changing character of revolution around the world, The Revolutionary City focuses on the impact that the concentration of people, power, and wealth in cities exercises on revolutionary processes and outcomes. Once predominantly an urban and armed affair, revolutions in the twentieth century migrated to the countryside, as revolutionaries searched for safety from government repression and discovered the peasantry as a revolutionary force. But at the end of the twentieth century, as urban centers grew, revolution returned to the city-accompanied by a new urban civic repertoire espousing the containment of predatory government and relying on visibility and the power of numbers rather than arms.Using original data on revolutionary episodes since 1900, public opinion surveys, and engaging examples from around the world, Mark Beissinger explores the causes and consequences of the urbanization of revolution in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Beissinger examines the compact nature of urban revolutions, as well as their rampant information problems and heightened uncertainty. He investigates the struggle for control over public space, why revolutionary contention has grown more pacified over time, and how revolutions involving the rapid assembly of hundreds of thousands in central urban spaces lead to diverse, ad hoc coalitions that have difficulty producing substantive change.The Revolutionary City provides a new understanding of how revolutions happen and what they might look like in the future.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.4.2022
• Zusatzinfo: 77 b/w illus. 14 tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Schlagworte: 1959 Mosul uprising • 1991 uprisings in Iraq • 1997 Asian financial crisis • 2014 Ukrainian revolution • 8888 Uprising • activism • Anti-Imperialism • arab spring • authoritarianism • beer hall putsch • Black January • bolsheviks • Buddhism • Capital Flight • Carnation Revolution • Cedar Revolution • Civil Society • Cold War • Cold War (1985–91) • communards • communist revolution • Contemporary Society • contentious politics • Corruption Perceptions Index • Counterculture • Counter-Insurgency • counter-revolutionary • coup d'état • Cross-class alliance • Crowd Control • Cultural revolution • curtailment • Decolonization • defection • Disruptive innovation • Economic Development • Economic Growth • economic stagnation • electoral fraud • Emerging Technologies • Euromaidan • Extended family • Financial Crisis • Financial crisis of 2007–08 • fraternization • Globalization • Great Depression • guerrilla warfare • Gwangju Uprising • Hungarian Revolution of 1956 • hunger strike • Inflation • Insurgency • International Students' Day • Iranian Revolution • Kmara • Mass Mobilization • meiji restoration • Mexican Revolution • Military Dictatorship • Mohamed Bouazizi • Multi-Party System • mutiny • nonviolent revolution • occupy movement • Oppression • Orange Revolution • People Power Revolution • Peterloo Massacre • Political Instability Task Force • political revolution • popular sovereignty • Prediction • Probability • Protest • Public Space • Reformasi (Malaysia) • Regime • Religion • Revolution • revolutionary movement • Revolutionary Youth Movement • Revolution of 1905 • Revolutions of 1989 • Right of revolution • Right Sector • right-wing populism • Romanian Revolution • Rose Revolution • Russian Civil War • Saddam Hussein • Sidi Bouzid • social revolution • spartacist uprising • State Within A State • statistical significance • Suharto • Sunflower Student Movement • Superiority (short story) • technocracy • Term limit • The True Cost • Total War • Trade-off • Tunisian Revolution • Ukraine without Kuchma • United States Bill of Rights • unrest • Urban bias • urbanization • Urban revolution • Vanguardism • Velvet Revolution • Viktor Yanukovych • war • warfare • White Revolution • World War I • Yemeni Revolution
• ISBN-10: 0-691-22475-7 / 0691224757
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-22475-6 / 9780691224756