Talkin’ ’bout a revolution

The meaning of revolution is ever-changing. David Armitage shows how events in recent history have caused a revolution in the meaning of revolution. 

David Armitage | Published in History Today Volume 67 Issue 2 February 2017

The Means of Avoiding Troubles is to trace those who have caused many anxieties and irreparable losses by G. Devere 1789If you wanted to rethink revolution, 1988 looked like the best of times: 300 years after the Glorious Revolution and on the eve of France’s revolutionary bicentennial.

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