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Revolutions and the collapse of monarchy : human agency and the making of revolution in France, Russia, and Iran /
What causes revolution? What brought about the end of the last major monarchies of the modern period? Were Louis XVI, Nicholas II, and Mohammad Reza Pahlavi the unwitting victims of historical circumstance, or did their own actions help to bring about the revolutions that overthrew them? This powerf...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York : New York :
I.B. Tauris ; Distributed in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan,
2007.
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| Colección: | International library of historical studies ;
42. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | What causes revolution? What brought about the end of the last major monarchies of the modern period? Were Louis XVI, Nicholas II, and Mohammad Reza Pahlavi the unwitting victims of historical circumstance, or did their own actions help to bring about the revolutions that overthrew them? This powerful and original book is the first comparative study of the revolutions in Bourbon France, Romanov Russia and Pahlavi Iran. Zhand Shakibi analyses fully the timing and causes of these three revolutions and reveals the important similarities between them. "Revolutions and the Collapse of Monarchy. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 287 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-282) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781435603936 1435603931 128275064X 9781282750647 9780857716446 0857716441 |