Taking Power analyzes the causes behind some three dozen revolutions in the Third World between 1910 and the present. It advances a theory that seeks to integrate the political, economic, and cultural factors that brought these revolutions about, and links structural theorizing with original ideas on culture and agency. It attempts to explain why so few revolutions have succeeded, while so many have failed. The book is divided into chapters that treat particular sets of revolutions including the great social revolutions of Mexico 1910, China 1949, Cuba 1959, Iran 1979, and Nicaragua 1979, the anticolonial revolutions in Algeria, Vietnam, Angola, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe from the 1940s to the 1970s, and the failed revolutionary attempts in El Salvador, Peru, and elsewhere. It closes with speculation about the future of revolutions in an age of globalization, with special attention to Chiapas, the post-September 11 world, and the global justice movement.
This book analyzes the processes of social transformation in Iran from the height of the country's power in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries under the Safavid dynasty to the aftermath of the startling revolution that overthrew the Pahlavi monarchy in 1979.
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Not long after Harry and Ashton Maxwell leave high school, their little east coast Town in upper New York state is under threat. When a beautiful girl comes knock at their door one day and tells of her brother's sudden disappearance. She requests that Thomas Maxwell, the brothers father take on the case, their father Thomas Maxwell who should have no problems in finding her brother, because after all he is a world famous detective. But while on the verge of starting to investigate the disappearance of the girl's brother, Andrew Crawford. Mr Maxwell attention is drawn towards an attack, which leaves Harry and Ashton to investigate the disappearance for themselves, with there friends Rex, a science geek and Jason a high school football jock. Their first mission begins. But as their adventure unfolds, it becomes clear that the disappearance and the attack are linked. With explosions and gun fights the two uncover a ordain plot which will leave the entire planet in their hands.
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