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 /...
Social origins of dictatorship and democracy : lord and peasant in the making of the modern world / Barrington Moore, Jr.
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Publisher
Harmondsworth : Penguin, [1969]
Date
[1969]
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DH/2264
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Language
English
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Physical content
xvi, 559 p. ; 20 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
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 -- Three routes to the modern world in Asia. Note : problems in comparing European and Asian political...
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Publisher
Harmondsworth : Penguin, [1969]
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United Kingdom
Date Published
[1969]
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Summary
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 develop...
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Social origins of dictatorship and democracy : lord and peasant in the making of the modern world / Barrington Moore, Jr.
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Peregrine books
Originally published, Boston: Beacon Press, 1966; London: Allen Lane, 1967.
Bibliography: p. [524]-546.
Mitchell Library copy at DH/2264: Part of the Donald Horne Collection, East Bank, Shelf 11.
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DH/2264
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74VKVA6vA3mb
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ISBN
9780140550863
0140550860
DDC
321.9
309
MMS ID
991024172913102626
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