Crane Brinton

Crane Brinton (* 1898 in Connecticut, † 1968 in Massachusetts) was American historian. In his important and strong sociological previous work, The Anatomy of Revolution, describes, and he typed in general the course of revolutions.

Theory

Sign of the revolution

After Brinton indicate an approaching revolution towards:

  • Budget deficits
  • Favoring one group at the expense of other
  • Problems in the administration
  • Loss of consciousness of the ruling class
  • Reinforcement of social antagonism
  • Separation of economic from political power

Time

According to Brinton, the time of the revolution is a surprise. Although for the people is something in the air, but they assume that something happens only in the next, not in their own generation.

Role of the military

Brinton believes that successful revolutions in the revolutionary forces militarily skillful act as the counter-revolutionary government troops are not fighting or about to run at full power.

In actual military clash, only a minority is active on both sides.

Works

  • The Jacobins. An Essay in the New History (1930 )
  • A Decade of Revolution ( 1934)
  • The Anatomy of Revolution (1938, revised 1965 ² )
  • Ideas and Men The Story of Western Thought (1950, 1963)
  • A History of Western Morals (1959 )
  • The Shaping of the Modern Mind ( 1963)
  • The Americans and the French ( 1968)

Jared Sparks (1838-1849) | Henry Warren Torrey (1856-1886) | Ephraim Whitman Gurney ( 1886) | Silas Marcus McVane ( 1887-1911 ) | Edward Channing ( 1912-1929 ) | William Scott Ferguson ( 1929-1945 ) | Crane Brinton (1946-1968) | Franklin L. Ford (1968-1991) | Steven Ozment (since 1990)

  • Historian
  • McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History
  • Americans
  • Born in 1898
  • Died in 1968
  • Man
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