A drop-dead brilliant synthesis explaining how social relations in some countries led to democracy whereas those in others fostered dictatorship.
Very helpful for analyzing similar trends in our own time.
Moore writes elegantly. That doesn’t hurt either.
Social Origins of Dictatorship & Democracy by Barrington Moore, Jr. (1966)
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