Global Crises and Social Movements

Edmund Burke, University of Chicago

• Global Crises and Social Movements: A Comparative Historical Perspective -- The Mid-Century Crisis and the Revolutions of 1848 -- Interdependencies in Global Crisis: France and England in the Mid-Nineteenth Century -- The French Revolution of 1848 and the Social History of Work -- The “Retardation” of French Economic Development and Social Radicalism During the Second Republic: New Lessons from the Old Comparison with Britain -- The Mid-Century Crisis and the 1848 Revolutions: The Case of England -- Peasants and World Market Cycles: The Moral Economy of Agrarian Social Movements -- Market Demand Versus Imperial Control: Colonial Contradictions and the Origins of Agrarian Protest in South and Southeast Asia -- On Peasant Diffidence: Non-Revolt, Resistance, and Hidden Forms of Political Consciousness in Northern Nigeria, 1900-1945 -- One, Two, or Many Vietnams? Social Theory and Peasant Revolution in Vietnam and Guatemala -- World Market Cycles and Fascist and Populist Movements in the Twentieth Century -- Fascism and Economic Policy Controversies: National Responses to the Global Crisis of the Division of Labor -- Silk and Steel: Italy and Japan Between the Two World Wars -- The Northeast Asian Political Economy Under Two Hegemonies