Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World
by Barrington Moore
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
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- Very Good/Good
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About This Item
Boston: Beacon Press, 1966. 8vo. 559 pp. Very Good in Good dust jacket. Slight wear to spine ends. Jacket rubbed and worn, rear panel lightly dust soiled. First printing with no indication of subsequent printing on copyright page. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good.
Synopsis
BARRINGTON MOORE, JR is a Lecturer in Sociology at Harvard University and Senior Research Fellow for the University's Russian Centre. He was educated at Williams College, where he took a degree in Greek and Latin, and at Yale University where he gained a PhD in sociology. His book Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy received the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award in political science and the MacIver Award in sociology. He is also the author of Soviet Politics: The Dilemma of Power, Terror and Progress: USSR, Political Power and Social Theory and, with Robert P. Wolff and Herbert Marcuse, A Critique of Pure Tolerance. His most recent book, Reflections on the Causes of Human Misery and upon Certain Proposals to Eliminate Them, was given the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award of Phi Beta Kappa.
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- Title
- Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World
- Author
- Barrington Moore
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Beacon Press
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1966
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.