This volume questions whether ideas of revolution are still relevant in the postmodern and globalized world of the twenty-first century. Featuring contributions from some of the world's leading sociological and political thinkers on revolution, it combines theoretical concerns with a variety of detailed case studies of individual revolutions. Subjects covered include:democracy and revolution from 1789 to 1989twentieth century revolutions and theories of revolution, including Marxism, modernization and structuralist theoriesrevolution in the "Third World" and the variable geometry of the paths to modernityIslamic revolutions and modernitythe 1989 revolutions as "democratic revolutions" or "elite-led transitions"globalization, the nation-state and revolutionempire and "democratic revolution"network society and revolutionIslamic fundamentalism, international terrorism and revolutiondemocratic revolution as a new form of revolutionpostmodern theories of revolutionnew social movements, identities and new figures of revolution. Revolution in the Making of the Modern Worldwill be essential reading for students and scholars of comparative politics, political theory, revolution and political sociology. | Revolution in the Making of the Modern World by John Foran, Paperback | Indigo Chapters