Article: Modern revolution; social change and cultural continuity in Czechoslovakia and China.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Article: A proper revolution?(1688: The First Modern ...
National Review;  November 2, 2009 ;     700+ words ...1688: The First Modern Revolution, by Steve Pincus (Yale ... into a corset ("the first modern revolution") that might be meant to ... compliment--the first "modern revolution." Sadly, he never quite ...

Article: 1688: The First Modern Revolution.(Brief ...
History Today;  October 1, 2009 ;     380 words ...1688 The First Modern Revolution Steve Pincus [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Based on new archival ... point in the making of the modern world--the first truly modern revolution. 664pp. 72 b/w illus. 28.00 [pounds sterling]

Article: July days: memories of Britain's 'modern ...
History Today;  July 1, 1995 ;     700+ words ...Was the 1945 election Britain's only modern revolution? George VI told President Truman it was not. 'We don't have those here'. The authors of the very first Nuffield Election ...

Article: Rethinking the Glorious revolution.(Beyond the Bookshelf)(1688: ...
British Heritage;  January 1, 2010 ;     660 words ...BOOK 1688: The First Modern Revolution by Steve Pincus, Yale University Press, New Haven, 664 pages, hardcover, 540. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THE GLORIOUS Revolution ...

Article: Modern "Revolution" Sweeps Desert Village in ...
Xinhua English Newswire;  December 12, 1998 ;     449 words ...Over 20 years ago, "revolution" was a most prefered and fashionable political word in China. Yet it is still on the lips of the farmers of the Yatonggusi Village in the Taklamakan Desert of Northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, but in another sense. "The folks think 'englav' ("revolution"

Article: The modern revolution and the collapse of moral ...
Perspectives on Political Science;  September 22, 2001 ;     700+ words ...Francois Furet, who had the greatest respect for Tocqueville's genius, did not shrink from calling attention to certain limitations in his attempts to explain historically how the monarchical state in France prepared the way for the French Revolution. In a 1971 article, "Tocqueville and the Problem

Article: England's revolution; British history.(1688: The First ...
The Economist (US);  October 17, 2009 ;     700+ words ...Far from being consensual and conservative, the events of 1688-89 that gave birth to the modern liberal state were violent and transformative THE long-held view of Britain's "Glorious Revolution", which overthrew James II and replaced him on the throne with the Dutch Stadtholder, William of Orange