| Taking Power: On the Origins of Third World Revolutions Contributor(s): Foran, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521629845 ISBN-13: 9780521629843 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $58.89 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2005 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Revolutionary - Social Science | Developing & Emerging Countries - Social Science | Violence In Society |
| Dewey: 303.640 |
| LCCN: 2005045780 |
| Physical Information: 0.91" H x 6" W x 9" (1.32 lbs) 410 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Analyzing the causes behind thirty six revolutions in the Third World between 1910 and the present, this text attempts to explain why so few revolutions have succeeded, while so many have failed. The book is divided into chapters that treat particular sets of revolutions including the great social revolutions of Mexico (1910), China (1949), Cuba (1959), Iran (1979)and Nicaragua (1979), the anticolonial revolutions in Algeria, Vietnam, Angola, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe from the 1940s to the 1970s, and the failed revolutionary attempts in El Salvador, Peru, and elsewhere. |
Contributor Bio(s): Foran, John: - John Foran is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he is also involved with the programs on Islamic and Near Eastern Studies, Latin American and Iberian Studies, and Women, Culture, and Development. His books include Fragile Resistance: Social Transformation in Iran from 1500 to the Revolution (1993), A Century of Revolution: Social Movements in Iran (1994), and Theorizing Revolutions (1997). |