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Introduction; Part I. Doing Macroscopic Social Science: 1. A criticalreview of Barrington Moore's social origins of dictatorship anddemocracy; 2. Wallerstein's world capitalist system: a theoretical andhistorical critique; 3. The uses of comparative history inmacrohistorical research; Part II. Making Sense of the GreatRevolutions: 4. Explaining social revolutions: in quest of asocial-structural approach; 5. Revolutions and the world-historicaldevelopment of capitalism; 6. France, Russia, and China: a structuralanalysis of social revolutions; Part III. A Dialogue about Culture andIdeology in Revolutions: 7. Ideologies and revolutions: reflections onthe French case, byWilliam H. Sewell, Jr; 8. Cultural idioms andpolitical ideologies in the revolutionary reconstruction of statepower; Part IV. From Classical to Contemporary social revolutions: 9.What makes peasants revolutionary?; 10. Rentier state and Shi'a Islamin the Iranian revolution; 11. Explaining revolutions in thecontemporary Third World; 12. Social revolutions and mass militarymobilisation; Conclusion: reflections on recent scholarship aboutsocial revolutions and how to study them.