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Making Waves - Worldwide Social Movements, 1750-2005 (Paperback)
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Making Waves - Worldwide Social Movements, 1750-2005 (Paperback)
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"Making Waves" unearths the successive, worldwide waves of revolts,
rebellions, and revolutions that have shaken and remade the world
from the eighteenth century to the present. It challenges us to
rethink not only our limited conceptions of social movements but
the very character and possibilities of social movements. The
authors show how successive outbursts of global social protest have
undermined world capitalist orders and, through both their
successes and their failures, provided the basis for long periods
of stable capitalist rule across all the zones of the
world-economy. The surprises start in the Age of Revolution, when
the antisystemic wave of slave revolts that led to the Haitian
Revolution is related to the systemic effects of their combination
with the U.S. and French Revolutions. The analysis comes up to the
present, when a wave of post-1989 movements points to quite
divergent futures based, as in the past, on the search for
alternatives to communities organized by capital accumulation,
nation-states, and the accelerating commodification and
fragmentation of human needs, identities, and desires.
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