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The Revolutionary City: Urbanization and the Global Transformation of Rebellion Paperback – April 12, 2022

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How and why cities have become the predominant sites for revolutionary upheavals in the contemporary world

Examining the changing character of revolution around the world, The Revolutionary City focuses on the impact that the concentration of people, power, and wealth in cities exercises on revolutionary processes and outcomes. Once predominantly an urban and armed affair, revolutions in the twentieth century migrated to the countryside, as revolutionaries searched for safety from government repression and discovered the peasantry as a revolutionary force. But at the end of the twentieth century, as urban centers grew, revolution returned to the city―accompanied by a new urban civic repertoire espousing the containment of predatory government and relying on visibility and the power of numbers rather than arms.

Using original data on revolutionary episodes since 1900, public opinion surveys, and engaging examples from around the world, Mark Beissinger explores the causes and consequences of the urbanization of revolution in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Beissinger examines the compact nature of urban revolutions, as well as their rampant information problems and heightened uncertainty. He investigates the struggle for control over public space, why revolutionary contention has grown more pacified over time, and how revolutions involving the rapid assembly of hundreds of thousands in central urban spaces lead to diverse, ad hoc coalitions that have difficulty producing substantive change.

The Revolutionary City provides a new understanding of how revolutions happen and what they might look like in the future.

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    Princeton University Press
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    April 12, 2022
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    6.1 x 1.6 x 9.1 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0691224749
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0691224749
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"Winner of the Luebbert Best Book Award, Comparative Politics Section of the American Political Science Association"

"The most important new book on revolutions to appear in decades."---Jack A. Goldstone, Mobilization

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“This is the most comprehensive and significant quantitative study of revolutions in almost a century. The Revolutionary City promises to be the definitive look at the most dominant form today: urban civic revolutions.”―Jack A. Goldstone, author of Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World

“Combining breadth, depth, and clarity, The Revolutionary City tackles a complex question of enduring importance, examines it from a variety of angles relying on multiple methods, and successfully delivers important and original findings.”―Stathis N. Kalyvas, University of Oxford

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Princeton University Press (April 12, 2022)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 592 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0691224749
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0691224749
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.9 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.1 x 1.6 x 9.1 inches
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Mark Beissinger is Henry W. Putnam Professor in the Department of Politics at Princeton University. He previously served on the faculties of University of Wisconsin-Madison and Harvard University. In addition to numerous articles and book chapters, Beissinger is author or editor of six books. His Nationalist Mobilization and the Collapse of the Soviet State won multiple awards, including the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award for the best book published in the United States in the field of government, politics, or international affairs, and the Mattei Dogan Award for the best book published in the field of comparative research. His new book The Revolutionary City: Urbanization and the Global Transformation of Rebellion deals with the impact of urbanization on the incidence, practice, and consequences of revolutions around the world over the past century. Beissinger's research has been supported by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, the Wissenshaftskolleg zu Berlin, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the National Science Foundation, the United States Institute for Peace, and the Ford, Rockefeller, and Olin Foundations. He received his B.A. from Duke University in 1976 and Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1982.

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