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Social origins of dictatorship and democracy : lord and peasant in the making of the modern world / Barrington Moore, Jr. ; with a new foreword by Edward Friedman and James C. Scott.

Title
  1. Social origins of dictatorship and democracy : lord and peasant in the making of the modern world / Barrington Moore, Jr. ; with a new foreword by Edward Friedman and James C. Scott.
Published by
  1. Boston : Beacon Press, 1993.
Author
  1. Moore, Barrington, 1913-2005

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Description
  1. xxv, 559 pages; 20 cm
Summary
  1. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy is a comparative survey of some of what Moore considers the major/most indicative world economies as they evolved out of pre-modern political systems into industrialism. As the title suggests, Moore is not ultimately concerned with explaining economic development so much as exploring why modes of development produced different political forms that managed the transition to industrialism and modernization. Why did one society modernize into a "relatively free," democratic society (by which Moore means England) while others metamorphosed into fascist or communist states? His core thesis is that in each country, the relationship between the landlord class and the peasants was a primary influence on the ultimate form of government the society arrived at upon arrival in its modern age.
Subject
  1. Geschichte 1500-1950
  2. Sozialgeschichte 1500-1950
  3. Geschichte 1500-1950
  4. Sozialgeschichte 1500-1950
  5. Social history
  6. Economic history
  7. Revolutions
  8. Social classes
  9. Social Conditions
  10. Social Class
  11. Histoire sociale
  12. Histoire économique
  13. Révolutions
  14. Classes sociales
  15. social history
  16. revolutions
  17. social classes
  18. Politics and government
  19. Demokratie
  20. Politik
  21. Revolution
  22. Wirtschaft
  23. Entwicklung
  24. Demokratisierung
  25. Diktatur
  26. Dictatuur
  27. Democratie
  28. Sociale aspecten
  29. Ditadura
  30. Democracia
  31. Revoluções
  32. História econômica
  33. História social
  34. Histoire économique > 1500-.... (Période moderne)
  35. Révolutions
  36. Régimes politiques
  37. Classes sociales
  38. Histoire sociale > 1500-1800
  39. Totalitarisme
  40. Démocratie
  41. Revolution
  42. Asia > Politics and government
  43. Asie > Politique et gouvernement
  44. Asia
  45. Indien
  46. Grande-Bretagne > Histoire
  47. France > Histoire > 1789-1799 (Révolution)
  48. États-Unis > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession)
  49. Asie > Histoire
Contents
  1. Part 1: Revolutionary origins of capitalist democracy. England and the contributions of violence to gradualism ; Evolution and revolution in France ; The American Civil War : the last capitalist revolution -- Part 2: Three routes to the modern world in Asia. Note : problems in comparing European and Asian political processes ; The decay of imperial China and the origins of the communist variant ; Asian fascism : Japan ; Democracy in Asia : India and the price of peaceful change -- Part 3: Theoretical implications and projections. The democratic route to modern society ; Revolution from above and fascism ; The peasants and revolution ; Epilogue : reactionary and revolutionary imagery -- Appendix: A note on statistics and conservative historiography.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 524-546) and index.
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