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

Contents

Foreword by Terence Emmons....................vii
Introduction. Delineating the Problem....................1
ONE Historic Europe: The Medieval Matrix and Its Internal Contradictions, 1000-1400....................11
Part I. Revolution as Religious Heresy TWO Hussite Bohemia, 1415-1436: From Heresy to Proto-Revolution....................37
THREE Lutheran Germany, 1517-1555: The Reformation as Semi-Revolution....................60
FOUR Huguenot France, 1559-1598....................98
FIVE The Netherlands' Revolt, 1566-1609....................115
Part II. Classic Atlantic Revolutions SIX England, 1640-1660-1688: From Religious to Political Revolution....................133
SEVEN America, 1776-1787: Revolution as Great Good Fortune....................161
EIGHT France, 1789-1799: Revolution as Militant Modernity....................178
Part III. The Quest for Socialist Revolution NINE From the First Modern Revolution to the First Anticipated Revolution, 1799-1848: The Nineteenth Century at a Glance....................215
TEN Marxism and the Second International, 1848-1914....................240
ELEVEN Red October: The Revolution to End All Revolutions....................253
Conclusion and Epilogue....................279
Appendix I. Revolution: What's in a Name?....................287
Appendix II. High Social Science and "Staseology"....................302
Notes....................317
Index....................343