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[[File:Maquina vapor Watt ETSIIM.jpg|thumb|A [[Watt steam engine]] in [[Madrid]]. The development of the [[steam engine]] propelled the [[Industrial Revolution]] in [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|Britain]] and the world. The steam engine was created to [[pump]] water from [[coal mine]]s, enabling them to be deepened beyond [[groundwater]] levels.]] | |||
A '''revolution''' (from the [[Vulgar Latin|Latin]] ''revolutio'', "a turn around") is a fundamental [[social change|change]] in power or organizational structures that takes place in a relatively short period of time. | A '''revolution''' (from the [[Vulgar Latin|Latin]] ''revolutio'', "a turn around") is a fundamental [[social change|change]] in power or organizational structures that takes place in a relatively short period of time. | ||
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==Types== | ==Types== | ||
There are many different typologies of revolutions in social science and literature. For example, classical scholar [[Alexis de Tocqueville]] differentiated<ref>Roger Boesche, ''Tocqueville's Road Map: Methodology, Liberalism, Revolution, and Despotism'', Lexington Books, 2006, ISBN 0739116657, [http://books.google.com/books?id=fLL6Bil2gtcC&pg=PA86&dq=%22types+of+revolution%22&as_brr=3&ei=hdVQR6TVIpm4pgLFvJ2fBw&sig=ZEc373JU8-9qM9N4BgKjnvvHVD8#PPA86,M1 Google Print, p.86]</ref> between 1) [[political revolution]]s 2) sudden and violent revolutions that seek not only to establish a new political system but to transform an entire society and 3) slow but sweeping transformations of the entire society that take several generations to bring about (ex. [[religion]]). One of several different [[Marxist]] typologies divides revolutions into pre-capitalist, early bourgeois, bourgeois, bourgeois-democratic, early proletarian, and socialist revolutions.<ref>{{pl icon}} J. Topolski, "Rewolucje w dziejach nowożytnych i najnowszych (xvii-xx wiek)," Kwartalnik Historyczny, LXXXIII, 1976, 251-67</ref> | There are many different typologies of revolutions in social science and literature. For example, classical scholar [[Alexis de Tocqueville]] differentiated<ref>Roger Boesche, ''Tocqueville's Road Map: Methodology, Liberalism, Revolution, and Despotism'', Lexington Books, 2006, ISBN 0739116657, [http://books.google.com/books?id=fLL6Bil2gtcC&pg=PA86&dq=%22types+of+revolution%22&as_brr=3&ei=hdVQR6TVIpm4pgLFvJ2fBw&sig=ZEc373JU8-9qM9N4BgKjnvvHVD8#PPA86,M1 Google Print, p.86]</ref> between 1) [[political revolution]]s 2) sudden and violent revolutions that seek not only to establish a new political system but to transform an entire society and 3) slow but sweeping transformations of the entire society that take several generations to bring about (ex. [[religion]]). One of several different [[Marxist]] typologies divides revolutions into pre-capitalist, early bourgeois, bourgeois, bourgeois-democratic, early proletarian, and socialist revolutions.<ref>{{pl icon}} J. Topolski, "Rewolucje w dziejach nowożytnych i najnowszych (xvii-xx wiek)," Kwartalnik Historyczny, LXXXIII, 1976, 251-67</ref> | ||
