Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World"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."--New York Times Book Review |
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... towns “ rose ” ; the landed upper classes did not " fall " - at least not for a very long time . By the end of the Napoleonic Wars , the more modern capitalists in the towns had already achieved considerable strength on the basis of ...
... towns “ rose ” ; the landed upper classes did not " fall " - at least not for a very long time . By the end of the Napoleonic Wars , the more modern capitalists in the towns had already achieved considerable strength on the basis of ...
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... towns . Many of the aristo- cratic demands of the time resemble those made in England : for a voice in the government and especially in the government's ways of raising money . But the outcome was not parliamentary democ- racy . The ...
... towns . Many of the aristo- cratic demands of the time resemble those made in England : for a voice in the government and especially in the government's ways of raising money . But the outcome was not parliamentary democ- racy . The ...
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... towns which exported the wool , a situation quite different from that in eastern Germany where grain growing in Junker hands bypassed the de- clining towns . The convergence between the landed and urban upper classes fin England before ...
... towns which exported the wool , a situation quite different from that in eastern Germany where grain growing in Junker hands bypassed the de- clining towns . The convergence between the landed and urban upper classes fin England before ...
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England and the Contributions of Violence | 3 |
Evolution and Revolution in France | 40 |
The Peasants Relationship to Radicalism during | 70 |
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