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Books : Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern WorldIn association with Amazon.comby: Barrington Moore  List Price: $28.00 Amazon.com's Price: $24.25 You Save: $3.75 (13%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 301 EAN: 9780807050736 ISBN: 0807050733 Label: Beacon Press Manufacturer: Beacon Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 559 Publication Date: September 01, 1993 Publisher: Beacon Press Studio: Beacon Press Sales Rank: 50187 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: 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 Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Examing ModernizationMoore seeks to examine the paths to modernity adopted by various countries and the subsequent political outcomes. Principally, more concentrates on the emergence of democracy, fascism, and communism. Moore argues that each path to modernization is characterized by a certain level of revolution. The driving factor to the development of the political path is at which level in society does the revolution begin; the aristocracy (above), the bourgeoisie (middle), or the peasant (below)? As such, the ... Read More Rating:  - IS DEMOCRACY A `NATIONAL' PHENOMENON?In an age where `democracy' is almost sanctified and nations lacking a democratic system are alienated by the international community, books like Barrington Moore's are of immeasurable value. In his Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy, Moore does a phenomenal job in tracing the emergence of democratic systems in the West back to the specific types of the relations between monarchs, landlords, bourgeoisie, and peasants. His using `method of agreement' and `method of difference' alike ... Read More Rating: - A brilliant tour de force whose significance is still not appreciatedI read this book in the early 70's as a graduate student. It impressed me then as it still does as an example of a cogent analysis of the development of political systems of modern industrial states, solidly based on empirical grounds. Previous reviewers have provided much detail so I will content myself with the observation that how much better it would have been if the present US administration had absorbed the lessons of this book before embarking on the Mission (Impossible?) to bring democracy to Iraq. ... Read More Rating:  - Poorly WrittenThis is a seminal work, because it was the first work to take a comparative approach to political theory and it is the bane of many Poli Sci graduate students' existence. I am a graduate student, who was forced to read this poorly written and very painful text. It attempts to cover too much material. Rating: - An interesting book, but....There are a couple of quick points I'd like to add. First, these ambitious books often cover so much (and I think well in this case) that historical errors are bound to crop up. For example, Japanese historians have pointed out errors in the Japan chapter that should be considered. Second, the end of Adam's otherwise very informative review is simply incorrect. China with a GDP/capita of around $4500 has NOT outstripped Russia at $9000 GDP/capita. This , of course, does not reflect at all on the ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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