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To say that European social, political, and economic history is markedly different from that of the rest of the world is to say nothing new. Western Europe I was the first to develop new agricultural techniques, large-scale capitalist production, a network of commercial centers, and a system of powerful states. But Europe was also the first -and, alas, virtually the last -to develop liberal democratic political systems providing institutional checks on monarchal and state tendencies toward political monopoly, varying degrees of representation, the endowment of men (and later, women) with chartered rights of citizenship, and the subordination of the state to the rule of law. The vast social, political, and economic changes that decisively patterned European and consequently world history have usually been interpreted as coterminous, interrelated processes. The notion that modern liberal democracy developed as the political consequence of economic changes and the rise of the middle classes is deeply ingrained in many social theories, and is found in various forms with numerous admixtures and points of view in remarkably disparate places. Karl Marx noted the progressive political prod
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- Author
- Brian M. Downing
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands; Springer-Verlag; Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science and Business Media LLC (ISSN 0304-2421)
- Published
- 1989
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Social Sciences