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Scripting Revolution - by Keith Michael Baker & Dan Edelstein (Paperback)

Scripting Revolution - by  Keith Michael Baker & Dan Edelstein (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>This volume of essays proposes a new, historical approach to the comparative study of revolutions by exploring the ways in which they create, inherit, or extend recognizable scripts for political action and social action.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>This volume of essays proposes a new, historical approach to the comparative study of revolutions by exploring the ways in which they create, inherit, or extend recognizable scripts for political action and social action.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>An important and exciting book in several respects, this volume provides a rare opportunity for today's historians to engage in some hard-nosed, systematic comparative history in a highly constructive manner while greatly widening their own personal perspective on the spectrum of modern revolutions. It also makes a splendid teaching tool.--Jonathan Israel "<i> H-France</i>"<br><br>Keith Michael Baker and Dan Edelstein have edited an important and timely book that reassesses how the concept of revolution has evolved over the past three centuries....[T]he editors are right to insist that humanists can and should get back into the comparative revolutions business.--Nathan Perl-Rosenthal "<i>Journal of Modern History</i>"<br><br>The comparative study of revolutions has been left to sociologists and political scientists for too long. This book is long overdue and will undoubtedly become a landmark in the comparative study of revolutions and a spur to further research on revolutions.--Darrin McMahon "Dartmouth College"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Keith M. Baker is Professor of Early Modern European History at Stanford University. His books include <i>What's Left of Enlightenment? </i>and <i>Inventing the French Revolution</i>. Dan Edelstein is Professor of French and History at Stanford University. He is the author of <i>The Terror of Natural Right: Republicanism, the Cult of Nature, and the French Revolution</i>, which won the 2009 Oscar Kenshur Book Prize.

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