Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World / Edition 1

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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

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780807050736
  • Publisher: Beacon
  • Publication date: 9/28/1993
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 592
  • Sales rank: 640,240
  • Product dimensions: 5.40 (w) x 8.00 (h) x 1.36 (d)

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface and Acknowledgments
Pt. 1 Revolutionary Origins of Capitalist Democracy
Ch. I England and the Contributions of Violence to Gradualism
Ch. II Evolution and Revolution in France
Ch. III The American Civil War: The Last Capitalist Revolution
Pt. 2 Three Routes to the Modern World in Asia
Note: Problems in Comparing European and Asian Political Processes
Ch. IV The Decay of Imperial China and the Origins of the Communist Variant
Ch. V Asian Fascism: Japan
Ch. VI Democracy in Asia: India and the Price of Peaceful Change
Pt. 3 Theoretical Implications and Projections
Ch. VII The Democratic Route to Modern Society
Ch. VIII Revolution from Above and Fascism
Ch. IX The Peasants and Revolution
Epilogue: Reactionary and Revolutionary Imagery
Appendix: A Note on Statistics and Conservative Historiography
Bibliography
Index
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