Revolutions And Revolutionary Movements - Tapa dura

Takes a representative cross-section of the most significant upheavals of the century and puts them in an analytic perspective. The result is a compact handbook of revolution encompassing theory, history, cultural diversity and connections to current and future events.

James DeFronzo is associate professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Connecticut. He is the editor of Revolutionary Movements in World History: 1750 to the Present (2006), a three-volume encyclopedia, as well as the author of numerous articles on criminology, social policy related to crime, revolutionary movements (in the encyclopedia), teaching a revolutions course, demography, gender issues, and social stratification. Since the spring of 1985, more than seven thousand students have completed his Revo-lutionary Movements course, from which this book was developed.