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 | #1340010 in Books |  Princeton University Press |  1992-12-29 |  1993-01-18 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.81 x6.00l,1.08 | File type: PDF | 308 pages

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||6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| Interesting, Argued Well, Thin|By R. Albin|This clear and well argued book is an effort at a modification of Barrington Moore's work on the origins of democracy and dictatorship in the modern world. Where Moore stressed economic features of modernization, Downing reaches farther back to look at historical features of national development in early modern Europe. Downing argues| |"A refreshing return to a realistic view of political history."--William R. Hawkins, Chronicles|From the Back Cover||"When the manuscript of this book came to my attention, I intended to do no more than skim

To examine the long-run origins of democracy and dictatorship, Brian Downing focuses on the importance of medieval political configurations and of military modernization in the early modern period. He maintains that in late medieval times an array of constitutional arrangements distinguished Western Europe from other parts of the world and predisposed it toward liberal democracy. He then looks at how medieval constitutionalism was affected by the "military revolution"...

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