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Social origins of dictatorship and democracy : Lord and peasant in the making of the modern world (Record no. 34797)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780807050750 |
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| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 301.000000 |
| Item number | MOO |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Moore Barrington |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Social origins of dictatorship and democracy : Lord and peasant in the making of the modern world |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Boston |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Beacon Press |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 1993 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 559p |
| Dimensions | xvii |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE | |
| Price amount | Rs. 2,003 |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Contents: <br/>Part One: Revolutionary origins of capitalist democracy;<br/>I. England and the contributions of violence to gradualism; <br/>Aristocratic impulses behind the transition to capitalism in the countryside;<br/>Agrarian aspects of the Civil War;<br/>Enclosures and the destruction of the peasantry;<br/>Aristocratic rule or triumphant capitalism. II. Evolution and revolution in France;<br/>Contrasts with England and their origins;<br/>The noble response to commercial agriculture;<br/>Class relationships under royal absolutism;<br/>The aristocratic offensive and the collapse of absolutism;<br/>The peasants' relationship to radicalism during the revolution;<br/>Peasants against the revolution: The Vendee;<br/>Social consequences of revolutionary terror;<br/>Recapitulation. III. The American Civil War: the last capitalist revolution;<br/>Plantation and factory: an inevitable conflict;<br/>Three forms of American capitalist growth;<br/>Toward and explanation of the causes of the war;<br/>The revolutionary impulse and its failure;<br/>The meaning of the war. Part Two: Three routes to the modern world in Asia (Note: Problems in comparing European and Asian political processes);<br/>IV. The decay of imperial China and the origins of the Communist variant;<br/>The upper classes and the imperial system;<br/>The gentry and the world of commerce;<br/>The failure to adopt commercial agriculture;<br/>Collapse of the imperial system and rise of the warlords;<br/>The Kuomintang Interlude and its meaning;<br/>Rebellion, revolution, and the peasants;<br/>V. Asian fascism: Japan;<br/>Revolution from above: the response of the ruling classes to old and new threats;<br/>The absence of a peasant revolution;<br/>The Meiji Settlement: the new landlords and capitalism;<br/>Political consequences: the nature of Japanese fascism. VI. Democracy in Asia: India and the price of peaceful change;<br/>Relevance of the Indian experience;<br/>Mogul India: obstacles to democracy;<br/>Village society: obstacles to rebellion;<br/>Changes produced by the British up to 1857;<br/>Pax Britannica 1857;<br/>1947: a landlord's paradise;<br/>The bourgeois link to the peasantry through nonviolence;<br/>A note on the extent and character of peasant violence;<br/>Independence and the price of peaceful change. Part Three: Theoretical implications and projections;<br/>VII. The Democratic route to modern society;<br/>VIII. Revolution from above and Fascism;<br/>IX. The peasants and revolution;<br/>Reactionary and revolutionary imagery. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | 1. Social History - Modern 2. Economic History - Revolutions - Social Classes 3. Asia - Politics & Government |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type | BOOKs |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Cost, normal purchase price | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| NLS | NLS | 30/05/2017 | 2003.00 | 301 MOO | 30719 | 30/05/2017 | 30/05/2017 | BOOKs |