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The book, REVOLUTION is designed to be easy reading for any person who wants to learn about the many painful but glorious steps in human social evolution.
It could be used in academic institutions to teach and help readers how society has actually moved. Nine chapters are devoted to the description and evaluation of nine different revolutions, those that have been of the greatest importance in changing social institutions and social evolution in completely new directions. In addition to describing the revolutions, the book examines each revolution from the viewpoint of four different aspects of society: Economics, Politics, Technology, and Ideology. Near the end of the book, a chapter explains the major events of each revolution within the theoretical framework that has been developed. The next chapter states how the average revolution has happened in various processes and different dimensions, thereby creating a progressive theory of how the average revolution proceeds. Finally, the last chapter describes exactly how present history is progressing within the framework established within the rest of the book.
It would be an understatement to warn readers that Professor Sherman’s latest book is wide ranging and encyclopedic in scope. Sherman takes readers through nine historic revolutions dating from the Neolithic revolution in the Mideast in 4000 BC to the Chinese Revolution in the mid-twentieth century, and provides a framework for understanding the roles played by technology, class conflict, and social institutions in all these social revolutions. Readers intrigued by social stability and change seeking to understand the forces at play today will find this book, written by someone with a lifetime of experience studying and promoting struggles for progressive social change, both provocative and enlightening. — Robin Hahnel, Professor Emerita, Portland State University
Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1 Class Conflict and the Path to Revolution; 2 Prehistoric Communal Clans (Middle East); 3 Revolution from Communal Equality to Slavery (Middle East); 4 Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Revolution from Slavery to Feudalism; 5 The English Revolution (1640– 60): From Feudalism to Capitalism; 6 The American Revolution (1776): From Colony to Capitalism; 7 French Revolution (1789): From Feudalism to Capitalism; 8 American Civil War (1861): Revolution from Slavery to Capitalism; 9 Anti-colonial Revolutions for Independence Such as India; 10 The Russian Revolution; 11 The Chinese Revolution; 12 Patterns of Revolution; 13 The Progressive Theory of Revolution; 14 The Present as History; Bibliography; Index.