HSTR371B

Comparative World Revolutions

Explores revolution as a formative aspect of the modern world. Critical engagement with differing historical theories of revolution is accompanied by worldwide case studies, from early modern era to the present. Diverse state-based instances (e.g., England, United States, France, Haiti, Ottoman Empire, China, Russia, Mexico, Cuba, Iran) are compared with proliferating post-Cold War and globalization-era examples extending beyond the territorial, social, and conceptual boundaries of single states (e.g., “colour” revolutions, Arab uprisings, radical social movements).