Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World

Abstract

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 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