History's Locomotives: Revolutions and the Making of the Modern World

Contents......Page 6
Foreword......Page 8
Introduction: Delineating the Problem......Page 14
1 Historic Europe......Page 24
Part I Revolution as Religious Heresy......Page 48
2 Hussite Bohemia, 1415–1436: From Heresy to Proto-Revolution......Page 50
3 Lutheran Germany, 1517–1555: The Reformation as Semi-Revolution......Page 73
4 Huguenot France, 1559–1598......Page 111
5 The Netherlands’ Revolt, 1566–1609......Page 128
Part II Classic Atlantic Revolutions......Page 144
6 England, 1640–1660–1688: From Religious to Political Revolution......Page 146
7 America, 1776–1787: Revolution as Great Good Fortune......Page 174
8 France, 1789–1799: Revolution as Militant Modernity......Page 191
Part III The Quest for Socialist Revolution......Page 226
9 From the First Modern Revolution to the First Anticipated Revolution, 1799–1848: The Nineteenth Century at a Glance......Page 228
10 Marxism and the Second International, 1848–1914......Page 253
11 Red October: The Revolution to End All Revolutions......Page 266
Conclusion and Epilogue......Page 292
Appendix I Revolution: What\'s in a Name?......Page 300
Appendix II High Social Science and \"Staseology\"......Page 315
Notes......Page 330
Index......Page 356