Andrew Wheatcroftis Professor of International Publishing and Communication and Director of the Centre for Publishing Studies at the University of Stirling. He is the author ofInfidels,The Habsburgs, andThe Ottomans, and has been researching the material for The Enemy at the Gatefor more than twenty years.
I found this book in a thriftstore awhile back, and I continue to refer to it often. It provides a brief analysis of every significant revolution (conservative and progressive) in the world from the American revolution, which it posits as the prototypical modern-era revolution, to the 1980's, when the book was published.