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PART 1: GENERAL, SYNTHETIC, AND THEORETICAL
1. The Marx-Engels Reader (1978)
2. Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution (1917)
3. Crane Brinton, Anatomy of Revolution (1930)
4. Hannah Arendt, On Revolution (1953)
5. Chalmers Johnson, Revolutionary Change (1966)
6. Barrington Moore, Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy (1966)
7. Samuel Huntington, Political Order in Changing Societies (1968)
8. Ernesto Che Guevara, Guerilla Warfare (1969)
9. Ted Robert Gurr, Why Men Rebel (1970)
10. Theda Skocpol, States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China (1979)
11. Charles Tilly, European Revolutions: 1492-1992 (1996)
12. Mark Katz, Revolutions and Revolutionary Waves (1999)
13. Misagh Parsa, States, Ideologies, and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of Iran, Nicaragua, and the Philippines (2000)
14. Jeff Goodwin, No Other Way Out: States and Revolutionary Movements, 1945-1991 (2001)
15. John Foran, Taking Power: On the Origins of Third World Revolutions (2005)
16. Jack Goldstone, Revolutions: A Very Short Introduction (2014) Spring 2015 Mateo Jarquín
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PART 2: THE AGE OF REVOLUTION
CASE STUDY: THE UNITED STATES 17. Gordon Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution (1991)
18. Bernard Bailyn, The Ideological Origins of the America Revolution (1993)
19. Gary B. Nash, The Forgotten Fifth: African Americans in the Age of Revolution (2006)
CASE STUDY: FRANCE 20. François Furet, Revolutionary France, 1770-1880 (1995)
21. William Doyle, The Oxford History of the French Revolution (2003)
CASE STUDY: HAITI AND THE CARIBBEAN 22. CLR James, The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (1963)
23. Laurent Dubois, A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804 (2004)
24. Laurent Dubois, Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution (2004)
25. Robin Blackburn, “Haiti, Slavery, and the Age of the Democratic Revolution” in the William and Mary Quarterly, (2006), pp. 643-674.
CASE STUDY: SPANISH AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE 26. Jaime Rodriguez, The Independence of Spanish America (1998)
27. Aline Helg, Liberty and Equality in Caribbean Colombia, 1770-1835 (2004)
28. Jeremy Adelman, Sovereignty and Revolution in the Iberian Atlantic (2009)
29. Special issue of HAHR devoted to Wars of Independence (2010) Spring 2015 Mateo Jarquín
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COMPARATIVE AND TRANSNATIONAL STUDIES (AGE OF REVOLUTION) 30. Alexis de Tocqueville, The Old Regime and Revolution (1856)
31. David Geggus, The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World (2001)
32. Wim Klooster, Revolutions in the Atlantic World: A Comparative History (2009)
33. Suzanne Desan, Lynn Hunt, William Nelson, eds., The French Revolution in Global Per- spective (2013)
34. Ada Ferrer, Freedom’s Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution (2014)
PART 3: 20TH CENTURY REVOLUTIONS
CASE STUDY: RUSSIA 35. Ronald Grigor Suny, The Soviet Experiment (1997)
36. Sheila Fitzpatrick, The Russian Revolution (2003)
CASE STUDY: CHINA 37. Jonathan Spence, Mao Zedong: A Life (2006)
38. Frank Dikotter, The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution, 1945-1957
CASE STUDY: IRAN 39. Afsaneh Najmabadeh, “Iran’s Turn to Islam: From Modernism to Moral Order.” The Middle East Journal, 41 (1987): 202-217.
40. Nikkie Keddie, Modern Iran: Roots and Results of Revolution (2006) Spring 2015 Mateo Jarquín
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LATIN AMERICAN CASE STUDY: MEXICO 41. Alan Knight, The Mexican Revolution (1990)
42. Hector Aguilar Carmin and Lorenzo Meyer, In the Shadow of the Mexican Revolution (1993)
43. Gilbert Joseph and Daniel Nugent, eds. Everyday Forms of State Formation: Revolution and the negotiation of Rule in Modern Mexico (1994)
44. Gilbert Joseph and Jurgen Buchenau, Mexico’s Once and Future Revolution: Social Upheaval and the Challenge of Rule since the Late 19th Century (2013)
LATIN AMERICAN CASE STUDY: BOLIVIA 45. Merilee Grindle and Pilar Domingo, eds. Proclaiming Revolution: Bolivia in Comparative Perspective (2003)
46. James Siekmeier, The Bolivian Revolution and the United States, 1952 to the Present (2011)
LATIN AMERICAN CASE STUDY: CUBA 47. Jorge Domínguez, Cuba: Order and Revolution (1978)
48. Piero Gleijeses, Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa (1959-1976)
49. Louis Pérez Jr., Cuba Between Reform and Revolution (2011)
LATIN AMERICAN CASE STUDY: CHILE 50. Peter Winn, Weavers of Revolution: The Yarur Workers and Chile’s Raod to Socialism (1989)
51. Steve J. Stern, Battling for Hearts and Minds: Memory Struggles in Pinochet’s Chile (2006)
52. Tanya Harmer, Allende and the Inter-American Cold War (2011) Spring 2015 Mateo Jarquín
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LATIN AMERICAN CASE STUDY: NICARAGUA AND CENTRAL AMERICA 53. John Booth, The End and the Beginning: The Nicaraguan Revolution (1985)
54. John Booth, Understanding Central America: Global Forces, Rebellion, and Change (2014)
55. Walter LaFeber, Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America (1993)
LATIN AMERICAN CASE STUDY: EZLN 56. Neil Harvey, The Chiapas Rebellion: The Struggle for Land and Democracy (1998)
57. George Collier and Elizabeth Quaratiello, Basta! Land and the Zapatista Rebellion in Chiapas (2005)
COMPARATIVE AND TRANSNATIONAL STUDIES (20TH CEN- TURY LATIN AMERICA) 59. Timothy Wickham-Crowley, Guerillas and Revolution in Latin America (1993)
60. Eric Selbin, Modern Latin American Revolutions (1998)
61. Greg Grandin and Gilbert M. Joseph, eds. A Century of Revolution: Insurgent and Counterinsurgent Violence during Latin America’s Long Cold War (2010)