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The Revolutionary City 2022
The Revolutionary City: Urbanization and the Global Transformation of Rebellion is a 2022 book written by American political scientist Mark Beissinger.
The work analyzes 345 revolutionary episodes globally from 1900 to 2014 using datasets, narrative case studies, and nationally representative surveys of participants and non-participants in four recent revolutions. Beissinger contends that revolution, historically conducted through urban armed insurrection and later from rural areas, re-emerged in cities during the late twentieth century in a new form he terms the "urban civic" revolution. This type of uprising aims to remove corrupt and oppressive governments by mobilizing large unarmed crowds into central urban locations.
Historian Jack Goldstone called it "perhaps the most important new book on revolutions to appear in decades." In 2023, the book received the Gregory Luebbert Best Book Award as co-winner for the best publication in comparative politics over the previous two years.
Details
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- ISBN
- 9780691224763
- Pages
- 592
- Format
- Print and digital
