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

Contents......Page 7
Preface and Acknowledgments......Page 10
PART ONE Revolutionary Origins of Capitalist 
Democracy......Page 19
CHAPTER ONE England and the Contributions 
of Violence to Gradualism......Page 20
CHAPTER TWO Evolution and Revolution in 
France......Page 57
CHAPTER THREE The American Civil War: 
The Last Capitalist Revolution......Page 128
PART TWO Three Routes to the 
Modern World in Asia......Page 173
NOTE Problems in Comparing European 
and Asian Political Processes......Page 174
CHAPTER FOUR The Decay of Imperial China 
and the Origins of the Communist Variant......Page 177
CHAPTER FIVE 
Asian Fascism: Japan......Page 243
CHAPTER SIX Democracy in Asia: India and 
the Price of Peaceful Change......Page 329
PART THREE Theoretical Implications 
and Projections......Page 426
CHAPTER SEVEN 
The Democratic Route to Modern Society......Page 427
CHAPTER EIGHT Revolution from Above and Fascism
......Page 447
CHAPTER NINE 
The Peasants and Revolution......Page 467
EPILOGUE Reactionary and Revolutionary 
Imagery......Page 498
APPENDIX A Note on Statistics 
and Conservative Historiography......Page 523
Bibliography......Page 538
Index......Page 561