HOW REVOLUTIONARY WERE THE BOURGEOIS REVOLUTIONS?

In this panoramic historical analysis, Neil Davidson defends a renovated concept of bourgeois revolution. Davidson shows how our globalized societies of the present are the result of a contested, turbulent history marked by often forceful revolutions directed against old social orders, from the Dutch Revolt to the English and American Civil Wars and beyond.

Neil Davidson is a Senior Research Fellow with the Department of Geography and Sociology at the University of Strathclyde, where he is working on a program about the impact of neoliberal globalization on class and ethnic identities.

In 2016 Haymarket Books also published an abridged edition (400 pp) of this book.