Narratives Of Dictatorship In The Age Of Revolution

Author : Moisés Prieto
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Authoritarianism
ISBN : 1032417374

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Narratives of Dictatorship in the Age of Revolution by Moisés Prieto Pdf

"Between the mid-eighteenth and the mid-nineteenth century, the idea of dictatorship changed drastically, leaving back the ancient Roman paradigm and opening the way to a rule with extraordinary powers and which was unlimited in time. While the French Revolution produced an acceleration of history and created new narratives of dictatorship, with Napoleon Bonaparte as its most iconic embodiment, the Latin American struggle for independence witnessed an unprecedented concentration of rulers seeking those new nations' sovereignty through dictatorial rule. Starting from the assumption that the age of revolution was one of dictators too, this book aims at exploring how this new type of rulers whose authority was no longer based on dynastic succession or religious consecration sought legitimacy. By unveiling the role of emotions - hope, fear and nostalgia - in the making of a new paradigm of rule and focusing on the narratives legitimizing and de-legitimizing dictatorship, this study goes beyond traditional conceptual history. For this purpose, different sources such as libels, history treatises, encyclopedias, plays, poems, librettos, but also visual material will be resorted to. This book is essential reading for scholars and students of modern history, the history of emotions, intellectual history, global history, cultural studies and political science"--

Author : Moisés Prieto
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429589065

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Narratives of Dictatorship in the Age of Revolution by Moisés Prieto Pdf

Between the mid-eighteenth and the mid-nineteenth century, the idea of dictatorship changed drastically, leaving back the ancient Roman paradigm and opening the way to a rule with extraordinary powers and which was unlimited in time. While the French Revolution produced an acceleration of history and created new narratives of dictatorship, with Napoleon Bonaparte as its most iconic embodiment, the Latin American struggle for independence witnessed an unprecedented concentration of rulers seeking those new nations’ sovereignty through dictatorial rule. Starting from the assumption that the age of revolution was one of dictators too, this book aims at exploring how this new type of rulers whose authority was no longer based on dynastic succession or religious consecration sought legitimacy. By unveiling the role of emotions – hope, fear and nostalgia – in the making of a new paradigm of rule and focusing on the narratives legitimizing and de-legitimizing dictatorship, this study goes beyond traditional conceptual history. For this purpose, different sources such as libels, history treatises, encyclopedias, plays, poems, librettos, but also visual material will be resorted to. This book is essential reading for scholars and students of modern history, the history of emotions, intellectual history, global history, cultural studies and political science.

Author : Jack A. Goldstone
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : History
ISBN : 9780197666302

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Revolutions: a Very Short Introduction by Jack A. Goldstone Pdf

"In the 20th and 21st century revolutions have become more urban, often less violent, but also more frequent and more transformative of the international order. Whether it is the revolutions against Communism in Eastern Europe and the USSR; the "color revolutions" across Asia, Europe and North Africa; or the religious revolutions in Iran, Afghanistan, and Syria; today's revolutions are quite different from those of the past. Modern theories of revolution have therefore replaced the older class-based theories with more varied, dynamic, and contingent models of social and political change. This new edition updates the history of revolutions, from Classical Greece and Rome to the Revolution of Dignity in the Ukraine, with attention to the changing types and outcomes of revolutionary struggles. It also presents the latest advances in the theory of revolutions, including the issues of revolutionary waves, revolutionary leadership, international influences, and the likelihood of revolutions to come. This volume provides a brief but comprehensive introduction to the nature of revolutions and their role in global history"--

Author : I.F. Goodson,Sverker Lindblad
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789460913792

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Professional Knowledge and Educational Restructuring in Europe by I.F. Goodson,Sverker Lindblad Pdf

European welfare institutions such as education and health care are restructuring their organisations in terms of decentralisation, deregulation, privatization and so forth. As a consequence professional positions and demands on professional competencies in these institutions are in transition. At the same time European societies are changing in different ways, e.g. in terms of a "knowledge society" as well as in demographic and cultural changes. Professionals such as teachers and nurses are meeting such changes in their work with students and clients.Thus, there is a need to study these transitions and changes. Here we are doing this from a "bottom-up" perspective where we are comparing experiences in different institutional and national contexts. This study combines two kinds of narrative research; a study of the systemic narratives produced by governments who are restructuring educational systems and the life history narratives of those professionals working within those systems and their perspectives on ongoing restructuring.

Author : Vanessa R. Schwartz
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195389418

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Modern France by Vanessa R. Schwartz Pdf

The French Revolution, politics and the modern nation -- French and the civilizing mission -- Paris and magnetic appeal -- France stirs up the melting pot -- France hurtles into the future.

Author : Fathali M. Moghaddam
Publisher : American Psychological Association (APA)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1433830701

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Threat to Democracy by Fathali M. Moghaddam Pdf

2020 PROSE Award Finalist This book explores the recent international decline in democracy and the psychological appeal of authoritarianism in the context of rapid globalization. The rise of populist movements and leaders across the globe has produced serious and unexpected challenges to human rights and freedoms. By understanding the psychological foundations of the surge in populism and authoritarian leadership, we can better develop ways to nurture and safeguard democracy. Why and how do authoritarian leaders gain popular support? In this book, social psychologist Fathali M. Moghaddam discusses the stages of political development on the continuum from absolute dictatorship to the ideal of actualized democracy. He explains how "fractured globalization" - by which technological and economic forces push societies toward greater global unification, while social identity needs pull individuals back into tribal identification - can produce a turn toward dictatorship, even in previously democratic societies. The book concludes with potential solutions to the rise of authoritarian leaders and ways to strengthen democracy.

Author : R. R. Palmer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400820122

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Age of the Democratic Revolution: A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800, Volume 2 by R. R. Palmer Pdf

For the Western world as a whole, the period from about 1760 to 1800 was the great revolutionary era in which the outlines of the modern democratic state came into being. It is the thesis of this major work that the American, French, and Polish revolutions, and the movements for political change in Britain, Ireland, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, Sweden, and other countries, although each distinctive in its way, were all manifestations of recognizably similar political ideas, needs, and conflicts. Volume 1 of this distinguished two-volume work, "The Challenge," received critical accolades throughout the world. It was the winner of the Bancroft Prize in 1960 and was called "one of the classic works of American historical scholarship" (Key Reporter) and a book which "will enlarge and clarify our understanding of modern Western history. It will re-emphasize the strength and vitality of the roots that supported the growth of democracy in the Old and New Worlds" (New York Times). "Occasionally a historical work appears which, by synthesis of much previous specialized work and by intelligent reflection upon the whole, makes events of the past click into a new pattern and assume fresh meaning. Professor Palmer's book is such a work" (American Historical Review). "The Challenge" took the story to the eve of the French Revolutionary wars; Volume 2, "The Struggle" continues the account to 1800.

Author : Ned Richardson-Little
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108564267

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The Human Rights Dictatorship by Ned Richardson-Little Pdf

Richardson-Little exposes the forgotten history of human rights in the German Democratic Republic, placing the history of the Cold War, Eastern European dissidents and the revolutions of 1989 in a new light. By demonstrating how even a communist dictatorship could imagine itself to be a champion of human rights, this book challenges popular narratives on the fall of the Berlin Wall and illustrates how notions of human rights evolved in the Cold War as they were re-imagined in East Germany by both dissidents and state officials. Ultimately, the fight for human rights in East Germany was part of a global battle in the post-war era over competing conceptions of what human rights meant. Nonetheless, the collapse of dictatorship in East Germany did not end this conflict, as citizens had to choose for themselves what kind of human rights would follow in its wake.

Author : Federico Ferrara
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107061811

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The Political Development of Modern Thailand by Federico Ferrara Pdf

This book traces the roots of Thailand's political development from 1932 to the present, accounting for the intervening period's political turmoil.

Author : Raquel da Silva
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351008389

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Narratives of Political Violence by Raquel da Silva Pdf

An exploration of how political violence is constructed, this book presents the life stories of individuals once committed to political transformation through violent means in Portugal. Challenging simplistic conceptualisations about the actors of violence, this book examines issues of temporality, gender and interpersonal dynamics in the study of political violence. It is the first comprehensive case study of political violence in Portugal, based on the perspectives of former militants. These are individuals from different political spheres who became convinced that they could not be mere spectators of the circumstances of their times. For them, the only viable way of making a difference was through violent acts. Applying the Dialogical Self Theory to trace the identity positions underpinning their narratives, this book not only sheds light on radicalisation and deradicalisation processes at the individual level, but also on the meso- and macro-level contexts that instigate engagement with and encourage disengagement from armed organisations. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of critical terrorism studies, political violence, European history and security studies more generally.

Author : David Armitage,Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137014153

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The Age of Revolutions in Global Context, c. 1760-1840 by David Armitage,Sanjay Subrahmanyam Pdf

A distinguished international team of historians examines the dynamics of global and regional change in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Providing uniquely broad coverage, encompassing North and South America, the Caribbean, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia, and China, the chapters shed new light on this pivotal period of world history. Offering fresh perspectives on: - The American, French, and Haitian Revolutions - The break-up of the Iberian empires - The Napoleonic Wars The volume also presents ground-breaking treatments of world history from an African perspective, of South Asia's age of revolutions, and of stability and instability in China. The first truly global account of the causes and consequences of the transformative 'Age of Revolutions', this collection presents a strikingly novel and comprehensive view of the revolutionary era as well as rich examples of global history in practice.

Author : Daron Acemoglu,James A. Robinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521855268

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Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy by Daron Acemoglu,James A. Robinson Pdf

This book develops a framework for analyzing the creation and consolidation of democracy. Different social groups prefer different political institutions because of the way they allocate political power and resources. Thus democracy is preferred by the majority of citizens, but opposed by elites. Dictatorship nevertheless is not stable when citizens can threaten social disorder and revolution. In response, when the costs of repression are sufficiently high and promises of concessions are not credible, elites may be forced to create democracy. By democratizing, elites credibly transfer political power to the citizens, ensuring social stability. Democracy consolidates when elites do not have strong incentive to overthrow it. These processes depend on (1) the strength of civil society, (2) the structure of political institutions, (3) the nature of political and economic crises, (4) the level of economic inequality, (5) the structure of the economy, and (6) the form and extent of globalization.

Author : Walter Keating Kelly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1848
Category : France
ISBN : OXFORD:590557400

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Narrative of the French Revolution of 1848 by Walter Keating Kelly Pdf

Author : Barrington Moore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:60900653

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Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy by Barrington Moore Pdf

Author : Paul Corner,Jie-Hyun Lim
Publisher : Springer
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137437631

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The Palgrave Handbook of Mass Dictatorship by Paul Corner,Jie-Hyun Lim Pdf

This book offers a fresh and original approach to the study of one of the dominant features of the twentieth century. Adopting a truly global approach to the realities of modern dictatorship, this handbook examines the multiple ways in which dictatorship functions - both for the rulers and for the ruled - and draws on the expertise of more than twenty five distinguished contributors coming from European, American, and Asian universities. While confronting the immense complexities of repression and popular response under dictatorship, the volume also poses a series of wide-ranging questions about the political organization of present-day mass society.