Title

Revolutions: Moments and Movements in Historical Perspective

Authors

Seton Hall University, Department of History

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Description

What is a Revolution? Historians have used the term broadly to describe movements resulting in the toppling of regimes and establishment of new social and political orders, yet much remains unclear. Are revolutions an intrinsically modern phenomenon, or can the concept be productively applied to events in the ancient and medieval worlds? Can revolutions be clearly bounded in time? How do they begin and end? Is there a common trajectory? When and why do revolutions arise in interrelated clusters? However we choose to answer such questions, the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and recent events, from the Arab Spring to the riots in Hong Kong, remind us that revolutions, whether a cause of hope or trepidation, have lost none of their force and relevance.

This symposium will consider revolutions broadly in their social, cultural, and intellectual origins and ramifications, examining the interactions of ideologies, structures, pivotal moments, and social and political movements.

Publication Date

2-7-2020

Publisher

Seton Hall University

Disciplines

Arts and Humanities | History

Recommended Citation

Seton Hall University, Department of History, "Revolutions: Moments and Movements in Historical Perspective" (2020). Symposium in Comparative History. 6.
https://scholarship.shu.edu/history-symposium/6