How Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois Revolutions?
by: Neil Davidson

Softcover. Chicago, Haymarket Books, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 812 pages. Once of central importance to left historians and activists alike, the concept of the bourgeois revolution has recently come in for sustained criticism from both Marxists and conservatives. In this comprehensive rejoinder, Neil Davidson seeks to answer the question by systematically examining the approach taken by a wide range of thinkers to explain their causes, outcomes, and content across the historical period from the sixteenth-century Reformation to twentieth-century decolonization. Davidson's far-reaching research and comprehensive analysis shows that far from being a stale issue for the history books, understanding these struggles of the past can offer insightful lessons for today's radicals. Clean copy.