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Social origins of dictatorship and democracy : Lord and peasant in the making of the modern world
Moore Barrington
Social origins of dictatorship and democracy : Lord and peasant in the making of the modern world - Boston Beacon Press 1993 - 559p xvii
Contents:
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.
9780807050750
1. Social History - Modern 2. Economic History - Revolutions - Social Classes 3. Asia - Politics & Government
301.000000 / MOO
Social origins of dictatorship and democracy : Lord and peasant in the making of the modern world - Boston Beacon Press 1993 - 559p xvii
Contents:
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.
9780807050750
1. Social History - Modern 2. Economic History - Revolutions - Social Classes 3. Asia - Politics & Government
301.000000 / MOO