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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2018 AbstractSometimes the normal course of events is disrupted by a particularly swift and profound change. Historians have often referred to such changes as “revolutions”, and, though they have identified many of them, they have rarely supported their claims with statistical evidence. Here, we present a method to identify revolutions based on a measure of
Armand M. Leroi +6 more
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The French Revolution as an Imperial Revolution [PDF]
French Historical Studies, 2021 AbstractAttempts to reframe the Age of Revolutions as imperial in nature have not fully integrated the French Revolution. Replying to this gap and criticisms of the Revolution's global turn, this essay positions the Revolution as both a moment of imperial reorganization and a sequence of political reinvention that exceed our current categories of ...
Covo, Manuel, Maruschke, Megan
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A mycorrhizal revolution [PDF]
Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 2018 It has long been postulated that symbiotic fungi facilitated plant migrations onto land through enhancing the scavenging of mineral nutrients and exchanging these for photosynthetically fixed organic carbon. Today, land plant-fungal symbioses are both widespread and diverse.
Hoysted, GA +9 more
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The Reproductive Revolution [PDF]
The Sociological Review, 2009 We suggest that a third revolution alongside the better known economic and political ones has been vital to the rise of modernity: the reproductive revolution, comprising a historically unrepeatable shift in the efficiency of human reproduction which for the first time brought demographic security.
MacInnes, John, Díaz, J. Pérez
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Serhii Yefremov: Epitome of the Ukrainian Revolution [PDF]
, 2017 Yefremov’s personal characteristics exemplify the characteristic features of the Ukrainian revolution. He was an argumentative, pugnacious man, and the revolution was characterized by infighting. He was an institution builder, and that’s a key element of
Tarnawsky, Maxim
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Conformal type of ends of revolution in space forms of constant sectional curvature [PDF]
, 2015 In this paper we consider the conformal type (parabolicity or non-parabolicity) of complete ends of revolution immersed in simply connected space forms of constant sectional curvature.
Gimeno, Vicent, Gozalbo, Irmina
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Prelude to, and Nature of the Space Photometry Revolution [PDF]
, 2014 It is now less than a decade since CoRoT initiated the space photometry revolution with breakthrough discoveries, and five years since Kepler started a series of similar advances.
Gilliland, Ronald L.
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Staging Revolution: Form and Violence in La noche de los asesinos [PDF]
, 2015 Written within the first years of the Cuban revolution, José Triana’s La noche de los asesinos (1965) has traditionally been read as either a revolutionary or an antirevolutionary play.
Beltrán, Gina
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From Class Solidarity to Revolution: The Radicalization of Arsenal Workers in the Late Ottoman Empire [PDF]
, 2013 This article introduces a bottom-up perspective to the history of the Revolution of 1908 in the Ottoman Empire by focusing on the experiences of workers in the Imperial Naval Arsenal (Tersane-i Amire) in Istanbul. Drawing mainly on primary documents, the
Akın Sefer
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In search of liberal Tsarism: the historiography of autocratic decline [PDF]
, 2002 The idea that the autocracy might have successfully modernized itself has, in recent years, spread widely beyond academic circles. However, a look at traditional and recent historiography shows that very few historians support this line.
Read, Christopher
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