Revolution and the Global Struggle for Modernity: Volume 1 - The Atlantic Revolutions

This book, as the first volume of a multiple volume endeavor to analyze several revolutions of the long nineteenth and short twentieth century to show how revolutionary processes evolved, takes a closer look at the Atlantic Revolutions, that is, the American, the French, and the Haitian Revolution. It will therefore use a comparative ten-step model to emphasize similarities with regard to the revolutionary developments in different parts of the world. The book consequently aims at providing a general, but deeper, understanding of revolutions as a global phenomenon of modernity while explaining how revolutionary processes evolve and develop, and how they could and can be corrupted.