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• ISBN: 080705075X
• ISBN: 9780807050750
• Physical Description: xix, 559 pages ; 24 cm
• Publisher: Boston : Beacon Press, [1966]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 524-546).

Formatted Contents Note:

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.

Additional Physical Form available Note:

Also issued online.

Awards Note:

American Political Science Association Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award, 1967.

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