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  2. List of revolutions and rebellions - Wikipedia

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    1866–68: The Meiji Restoration and modernization revolution in Japan. Samurai uprising leads to overthrow of shogunate and establishment of "modern" parliamentary, Western-style system. 1867: The Fenian Rising: an attempt at a nationwide rebellion by the Irish Republican Brotherhood against British rule.

  3. Revolution - Wikipedia

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    "great revolution" (a revolution that transforms economic and social structures as well as political institutions, such as the French Revolution of 1789, Russian Revolution of 1917, or Islamic Revolution of Iran in 1979). [18] [19] Mark Katz identified six forms of revolution: rural revolution; urban revolution; coup d'état, e.g., Egypt, 1952

  4. French Revolution - Wikipedia

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    Overall, the Revolution did not greatly change the French business system, and probably helped freeze in place the horizons of the small business owner. The typical businessman owned a small store, mill or shop, with family help and a few paid employees; large-scale industry was less common than in other industrialising nations.

  5. American Revolution - Wikipedia

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    The American Revolution (1765–1783) was an ideological and political movement in the Thirteen Colonies in what was then British America. The revolution culminated in the American Revolutionary War , which began with the Battles of Lexington and Concord , on April 19, 1775.

  6. Ancien régime - Wikipedia

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    ' old rule ') was the political and social system of the Kingdom of France that the French Revolution overturned [1] through its abolition in 1790 of the feudal system of the French nobility [2] and in 1792 through its execution of King Louis XVI and declaration of a republic. [3] "Ancien régime" is now a common metaphor for "a system or mode ...

  7. Continental System - Wikipedia

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    The Continental Blockade (French: Blocus continental), or Continental System, was a large-scale embargo by French emperor Napoleon I against the British Empire from 21 November 1806 until 11 April 1814, during the Napoleonic Wars.

  8. Social revolution - Wikipedia

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    Charles Tilly with this book From Mobilization to Revolution is given as an example of a political conflict theory. He argues that groups with resources competed for political power, and that changes in access to resources could result in revolution. [13] Chalmers Johnson with his book Revolutionary Change, discusses a value-based model ...

  9. Industrial Revolution - Wikipedia

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    Important American technological contributions during the period of the Industrial Revolution were the cotton gin and the development of a system for making interchangeable parts, which was aided by the development of the milling machine in the United States. The development of machine tools and the system of interchangeable parts was the basis ...