Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World / 25th Anniversary Edition 2nd Edition

What can the great crises of the past teach us about contemporary revolutions? Jack Goldstone shows the important role of population changes, youth bulges, urbanization, elite divisions, and fiscal crises in creating major political crises. Goldstone shows how state breakdowns in both western monarchies and Asian empires followed the same patterns, triggered when inflexible political, economic, and social institutions were overwhelmed by cumulative changes in population structure that collided with popular aspirations and state-elite relations. Examining the great revolutions of Europe--the English and French Revolutions--and the great rebellions of Asia, which shattered dynasties in Ottoman Turkey, China, and Japan, he shows how long cycles of revolutionary crises and stability similarly shaped politics in Europe and Asia, but led to different outcomes. In this 25th anniversary edition, Goldstone reflects on the history of revolutions in the last twenty-five years, from the Philippines and other color revolutions to the Arab Uprisings and the rise of the Islamic State. In a new introduction, he re-examines his pioneering look at the role of population changes--such as rising youth cohorts, urbanization, shifting elite mobility--as continuing causal factors of revolutions and rebellions. The new concluding chapter updates his major theory and looks to the future of revolutions in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa.-- Provided by Publisher Cover......Page 1 Half Title......Page 2 Title Page......Page 4 Copyright Page......Page 5 Dedication......Page 6 Table of Contents......Page 8 List of Illustrations......Page 10 List of Tables......Page 12 Chronologies......Page 17 Preface to the First Edition......Page 22 Introduction to the 25th Anniversary Edition......Page 32 A. States in Crisis......Page 42 B. Social Theory, Social Science, and Comparative History......Page 80 2. State Breakdown in Early Modern Europe: The English Revolution......Page 104 A. Theoretical Controversies, Demographic and Economic Trends......Page 105 B. The Developing Crisis of the Tudor/Stuart Monarchy, 1500–1640......Page 133 C. Comparisons: France and Spain in the Seventeenth Century......Page 197 A. Theoretical Controversies, Demographic and Economic Trends......Page 211 B. The Developing Crisis of French Absolutism, 1700–1789......Page 237 C. Comparisons: The Nineteenth Century Wave of European Revolutions......Page 326 4. State Breakdown in Early Modern Asia: The Ottoman Crisis and the Ming-Qing Transition......Page 390 A. Theoretical Controversies, Demographic and Economic Trends......Page 392 B. The Developing Crises in Ottoman Anatolia and Ming China, c. 1500–1650......Page 403 C. Comparisons: The Nineteenth Century Crises in Qing China, the Ottoman Empire, and Tokugawa Japan......Page 431 5. Ideology, Cultural Frameworks, Revolutionary Struggles, and State Reconstruction......Page 457 6. From Past to Present, and a Look to the Future: 25 Years Later......Page 500 Appendix......Page 539 Bibliography......Page 542 Index......Page 624 The Central Problem: How To Explain The Periodic Waaves Of State Breakdown In The Earl Modern World -- State Breakdown In Early Modern Europe: The English Revolution -- State Breakdown In Early Modern Europe: The French Revolution -- State Breakdown In Early Modern Asia: The Ottoman Crisis And The Ming-qing Transition -- Ideology, Cultural Frameworks, Revolutionary Struggles, And State Reconstruction -- From Past To Present, And A Look To The Future: 25 Years Later. Jack A. Goldstone. First Edition Published By University Of California Press, 1991. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 501-581) And Index. 1. The central problem : how to explain the periodic waves of state breakdown in the early modifern world -- 2. State breakdown in early modifern Europe : the English Revolution -- 3. State breakdown in early modifern Europe : the French Revolution -- 4. State breakdown in early modifern Asia : the Ottoman crisis and the Ming-Qing transition -- 5. Ideology, cultural frameworks, revolutionary struggles, and state reconstruction -- 6. From past to present, and a look to the future : 25 years later