Book contents
- Revolutionary World
- Revolutionary World
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Global Revolution
- 1 The Atlantic Revolutions
- 2 The Revolutionary Waves of 1848
- 3 The Worlds of the Paris Commune
- 4 The Global Wave of Constitutional Revolutions, 1905–1915
- 5 The Global Red Revolution
- 6 The Wilsonian Uprisings of 1919
- 7 The Third World Revolutions
- 8 The Global Islamic Revolution
- 9 The Anticommunist Revolts of 1989
- 10 The Arab Uprisings
- Islands of Global Revolution
- Index
10 - The Arab Uprisings
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Book contents
- Revolutionary World
- Revolutionary World
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Global Revolution
- 1 The Atlantic Revolutions
- 2 The Revolutionary Waves of 1848
- 3 The Worlds of the Paris Commune
- 4 The Global Wave of Constitutional Revolutions, 1905–1915
- 5 The Global Red Revolution
- 6 The Wilsonian Uprisings of 1919
- 7 The Third World Revolutions
- 8 The Global Islamic Revolution
- 9 The Anticommunist Revolts of 1989
- 10 The Arab Uprisings
- Islands of Global Revolution
- Index
Summary
On December 17, 2010, a Tunisian street vendor, Muhammad Bouazizi, set himself on fire in front of the local government building in Sidi Bouzid, a small town in central Tunisia. Earlier in the day, a policewoman had confiscated his wares and publicly humiliated him. He tried to complain at the local municipality, but to no avail. It was then that he went to the local market and bought the flammable liquid with which he doused himself.
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- Revolutionary WorldGlobal Upheaval in the Modern Age, pp. 242 - 261Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021