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“The Dutch Revolt Anatomized”. Some Comments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

I. Schöffer
I. Schöffer
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University of Western Australia
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Gordon Griffiths and George Nadel have shown convincingly that the Revolt of the Netherlands shows some resemblance to the four great revolutions—the English, American, French and Russian revolutions—that Crane Brinton analyzed and compared in his stimulating work The Anatomy of Revolution. Both authors have been perhaps too modest. The resemblances are even more striking than they suggested; the Dutch Revolt had some features in common with the other revolutions which did not receive sufficient consideration in Brinton's analysis

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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 3 , Issue 4 , July 1961 , pp. 470 - 477
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1961

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5 An interesting book, in which this endemic stage of riots and revolts is described for France before the Fronde: Porshnev, B. F., Die Volksaufstände in Frankreich vor der Fronde 1623–1648, German translation from Russian (Leipzig, 1954)Google Scholar. An excellent example of a doctrinaire Marxist approach, with all the qualities and disqualities of its rigidity. Cf. Hobsbawn, E. J., Primitive Rebels. Studies in Archaic Forms of Social Movement in the 19th and 20th Centuries (Manchester, 1959), pp. 108–25 on the “City Mob”.Google Scholar

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