Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Approaches to Revolution, David Parhr; 2. The Dutch Revolt 1566-81: A national revolution?, Marjolein T Hart; 3. The English Revolution of 1649, Ann Hughes; 4. 1688: A political revolution, W.A. Speck; 5. The American Revolution 1763-91, Colin Bonwick; 6. The French Revolution 1789-99, Gwynne Lewis; 7. The revolutions of 1848, John Breuilly; 8. The revolutionary tradition in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Dick Geary; 9. The Russian Revolution, Maureen Perrie; 10. Counter-revolution and the 'failure' of revolution in interwar Europe, C.J. Wrigley; 11. Revolution from the Right: Fascism, Roger Griffin; 12. The anti-Communist revolutions in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, 1989 to 1991, Robert V. Daniels