Debating Modern Revolution

Jack R. Censer is Professor of History at George Mason University, USA. His recent publications include On the Trail of the D.C. Sniper: Fear and the Media (2010) and Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution (2001).

• Section I. The Birth of the Modern Revolution (1700-1815)Section II. The Revolutionaries Regroup (1815-1848)Section III. The Spread of Revolution beyond Western Europe and the Americas (1848-1949)Section IV. The Post-Imperial World (1949-present)BibliographyIndex

While most studies of revolution attempt to uncover timeless similarities in the causes and development of revolutions, Censer explores the transformations over two and a half centuries of the concept of revolution itself: the dramatic evolution in the justifications, objectives, and strategies proposed by philosophers and practitioners from Thomas Paine and Karl Marx through Frantz Fanon, Che Guevara, and the Ayatollah Khomeini. It is an original and enormously engaging tour d’horizon of the subject in a global perspective, ideally suited for students young and old.