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100			_aMoore Barrington
245			_aSocial origins of dictatorship and democracy : Lord and peasant in the making of the modern world
260			_aBoston _bBeacon Press _c1993
300			_a559p _cxvii
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505			_aContents: Part One: Revolutionary origins of capitalist democracy; I. England and the contributions of violence to gradualism; Aristocratic impulses behind the transition to capitalism in the countryside; Agrarian aspects of the Civil War; Enclosures and the destruction of the peasantry; Aristocratic rule or triumphant capitalism. II. Evolution and revolution in France; Contrasts with England and their origins; The noble response to commercial agriculture; Class relationships under royal absolutism; The aristocratic offensive and the collapse of absolutism; The peasants' relationship to radicalism during the revolution; Peasants against the revolution: The Vendee; Social consequences of revolutionary terror; Recapitulation. III. The American Civil War: the last capitalist revolution; Plantation and factory: an inevitable conflict; Three forms of American capitalist growth; Toward and explanation of the causes of the war; The revolutionary impulse and its failure; The meaning of the war. Part Two: Three routes to the modern world in Asia (Note: Problems in comparing European and Asian political processes); IV. The decay of imperial China and the origins of the Communist variant; The upper classes and the imperial system; The gentry and the world of commerce; The failure to adopt commercial agriculture; Collapse of the imperial system and rise of the warlords; The Kuomintang Interlude and its meaning; Rebellion, revolution, and the peasants; V. Asian fascism: Japan; Revolution from above: the response of the ruling classes to old and new threats; The absence of a peasant revolution; The Meiji Settlement: the new landlords and capitalism; Political consequences: the nature of Japanese fascism. VI. Democracy in Asia: India and the price of peaceful change; Relevance of the Indian experience; Mogul India: obstacles to democracy; Village society: obstacles to rebellion; Changes produced by the British up to 1857; Pax Britannica 1857; 1947: a landlord's paradise; The bourgeois link to the peasantry through nonviolence; A note on the extent and character of peasant violence; Independence and the price of peaceful change. Part Three: Theoretical implications and projections; VII. The Democratic route to modern society; VIII. Revolution from above and Fascism; IX. The peasants and revolution; Reactionary and revolutionary imagery.
650			_a1. Social History - Modern 2. Economic History - Revolutions - Social Classes 3. Asia - Politics & Government
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