num_pages: 592
description: "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
language: English
title: Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World
titlecomplete: Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World
genres: Academic, Political Science, Politics, Philosophy, Economics, Social Science, Classics, Nonfiction, Sociology, History
ratings_count: 1000
awards: awardedAt: -94665600000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: History and Biography
publisher: Beacon Press