A Note on the Reproductions; Preface; Part One: Prehistory: Insights and Limitations; 1. The Concept of ""Revolution"": From Tradition to Modernity; 2. Interpreting the English Revolutions: Hobbes, Harrington, and Locke; 3. Stages of Development: French Physiocrats and the Scottish Historical School; 4. The American Theory of Political Revolution; 5. The Contradictions of the French Revolution (1): Barnave and His Contemporaries; 6. The Contradictions of the French Revolution (2): Burke and His Critics; 7. The Bourgeoisie and the Concept of Social Revolution: From Consolidation to Abdication. Part Two: Origins, Developments, Orthodoxy8. Marx and Engels (1) 1843-47: Between enlightenment and Historical Materialism; 9. Marx and Engels (2) 1847-52: The Bourgeois Revolution in Theory and Practice; 10. Marx and Engels (3) After 1852: Transitions, Revolutions, and Agency; 11. Classical Marxism (1) 1889-1905: Bourgeois Revolution in the Social Democratic Worldview; 12. Classical Marxism (2) 1905-24: The Russian Crucible; 13. The Emergence of Orthodoxy: 1924-40; 14. Classical Marxism (3) 1924-40: Rethinking Bourgeois Revolution-strategy, History, Tradition. Part Three: Revisions, Reconstructions, Alternatives15. Revisionism: The Bourgeois Revolutions Did not Take Place; 16. From Society to Politics; From Event to Process; 17. "The Capitalist World-system"; 18. "Capitalist Social Property Relations"; 19. "Consequentialism"; Part Four: The Specificity of the Bourgeois Revolutions; 20. Between Two Social Revolutions; 21. Preconditions for an Era of Bourgeois Revolution; 22. Patterns of Consummation; Epilogue: Reflections in a Scottish Cemetery; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author.