This book will have wide appeal to progressive students and scholars across disciplines, as it is a provocative and thoroughly researched study by a prize-winning scholar. We will promote the book in appropriate web and print media, as well as at academic and activist conferences and events.

In this panoramic historical analysis, Neil Davidson defends a renovated concept of bourgeois revolution. Davidson shows how globalised societies of the present are the result of a contested, turbulent history marked by often forceful revolutions directed against old social orders, from the Dutch Revolt to the English and American Civil Wars and beyond.