Book Review: The Roots and Consequences of Civil Wars and Revolutions: Conflicts that Changed World History

Abstract

Here we have an interesting idea for a monograph that is instead presented as a reference book and leaves a reviewer unsatisfied. In his short introduction, Tucker acknowledges the thirty entries are a small sample of all history, but says he has tried to strike a representative balance across time and geography. He further says the selections “have much to teach us about interpreting historical events.”