Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy : Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World

Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy : Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World

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"A landmark in comparative history and a challenge to scholars of all lands who are trying to learn how we arrived at where we are now." -New York Times Book Review

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Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World

New Foreword by Edward Friedman and James C. Scott

"A landmark in comparative history and a challenge to scholars of all lands who are trying to learn how we arrived at where we are now."
-The New York Times Book Review

Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World,Barrington Moore,Beacon Press,0807050733,Asia,Comparative Government,Economic history,General,History - General History,International Relations - General,Political Doctrines,Politics/International Relations,Revolutions,Social classes,Social history,Sociology - General,Cultural studies,Philosophy / General,Political ideologies,Political structures: democracy

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