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Reflections on the causes of human misery and upon certain proposals to eliminate them
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ISBN: 0713903392 Year: 1972 Publisher: London Lane

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Authority and inequality under capitalism and socialism
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ISBN: 019828540X Year: 1987 Publisher: Oxford

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Moral Aspects of Economic Growth, and Other Essays
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ISBN: 0801433762 9781501726422 1501726420 9780801433764 1501726439 1501726412 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cornell University Press

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Barrington Moore, Jr., one of the most distinguished thinkers in critical theory and historical sociology, was long concerned with the prospects for freedom and decency in industrial society. The product of decades of reflection on issues of authority, inequality, and injustice, this volume analyzes fluctuating moral beliefs and behavior in political and economic affairs at different points in history, from the early Middle Ages in England to the prospects for liberalism under twentieth-century Soviet socialism. The social sources of antisocial behavior; principles of social inequality; and the origins, enemies, and possibilities of rational discussion in public affairs-these are among the topics Moore considers as he seeks to uncover the historical causes of some accepted forms of morality and to assess their social consequences.The keynote essay examines how moral codes grew out of commercial practices in England from medieval times through the industrial revolution. Moore pays special attention to conceptions of honesty and the temptation to evade that inform the volume as a whole. In the other essays, he considers particular political issues, viewing "political" in its broadest sense as an unequal distribution of power and authority that carries a strong moral charge. Free of preaching and advocacy, his work offers a rare reasonable assessment of the morality of major social institutions over time.

Moral purity and persecution in history.
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ISBN: 0691049203 Year: 2000 Publisher: Princeton (N.J.) Princeton university press

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Soviet Politics : The Dilemma of Power : The Role of Ideas in Social Change
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Year: 1950 Publisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press,

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Social origins of dictatorship and democracy : Lord and Peasant in the making of the modern world
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ISBN: 080705075X Year: 1967 Volume: 268 Publisher: Boston : Beacon Press,

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Social origins of dictatorship and democracy: lord and peasant in the making of the modern world
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ISBN: 0807050733 Year: 1993 Publisher: Boston, Mass. Beacon Press

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Originally published in 1966, this classic text is a comparative survey of some of what Barrington Moore considers the major and most indicative world economies as they evolved out of pre-modern political systems into industrialism. But Moore is not ultimately concerned with explaining economic development so much as exploring why modes of development produced different political forms that managed the transition to industrialism and modernization. Why did one society modernize into a “relatively free,” democratic society (by which Moore means England)? Why did others metamorphose into fascist or communist states? His core thesis is that in each country, the relationship between the landlord class and the peasants was a primary influence on the ultimate form of government the society arrived at upon arrival in its modern age.


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Social origins of dictatorship and democracy: : lord and peasant in the making of the modern world
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ISBN: 9780140137408 0140137408 Year: 1991 Publisher: Harmondsworth: Penguin books,

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