Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World Moore BarringtonPaperback
This classic work of comparative history explores why some countries have developed as democracies and others as fascist or communist dictatorshipsOriginally published in 1966, this classic text is a…
Specifikacia Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World Moore BarringtonPaperback
This classic work of comparative history explores why some countries have developed as democracies and others as fascist or communist dictatorshipsOriginally published in 1966, this classic text is a comparative survey of some of what Barrington Moore considers the major and most indicative world economies as they evolved out of pre-modern political systems into industrialism. But 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)? Why did others metamorphose 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
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