Includes bibliographical references (pages 408-436) and index.
Summary:
"Theorizing Post-Revolutionary Social Resilience How does a society reproduce its latent structures of power, of hierarchy, and of status under the weight of the revolutionary, transformative, indeed, totalizing impulse of a visionary, utopian state? What underpins these "below the waterline" processes of resilience? And how and why does it matter for political outcomes now, long after the demise of the successive orders that have sought in vain to trample on the inner logic of society? In his classic polemic on the historical method, Carlo Ginzburg eulogizes the power of the subtle trace, the clue, the hidden and the concealed as key to the unmasking of the fundamental, the significant, the essential. Clues, he surmises, are seldom found in what is most visible, most public, and most conspicuous, but are discreetly scattered where one is least prone to look for them"--Provided by publisher.
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