By Barrington Moore
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It's the 1974 published variation from Penguin. Contents are similar to Beacon Press's 1993 edition.
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As statistics are fashionable now, it is worthwhile stressing this point. Men who hold power do not necessarily exercise it sim ply in the interests of the class from which they arise, especially in changing situations. There was some tendency toward the adoption of aristocratic traits by the commercial and industrial elite in England. All ac counts of England prior to 1 9 I 4, and to some extent even beyond that date, give the strong impression that rolling green acres and a country house were indispensable to political and social eminence.
56 Gonner, Common Land, 201 202, 367 - 369; Hoskins, Midland - Peasant, 260. England tmd the Contributions of Violence to Gradualism 27 property rights to defend. "57 Within these bottom layers, before enclosure, there had been some variety of e<;onomic and legal position. Most poor families - tenant cottagers, for example - had a small dwell ing and the right to cultivate a few strips of land as well as to keep perhaps a cow, a few geese, or a pig or so. Men and beasts had generally scratched out an existence in which the rights of common played a large part.
But the indications are that opinion crystallized on these issues at different times. Hence as the dramatic events of the Revolution unfolded and men were confronted by events they could not control and whose implications they could not foresee - in short, as the process of revolutionary polarization advanced and receded, many high and low felt themselves in terrible predicaments and could reach a deci sion only with the greatest difficulty. Personal loyalties might pull in a direction opposite to principles that the individual only half realized and vice versa.