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<jats:p>From time out of mind, people have killed, maimed, and
oppressed one another in two sorts of conflicts: over material
interests (real estate, slave labor, agricultural surplus, war
booty, and so on) and over what Max Weber would have
termed "ideal interests" (conflicts over ultimate meanings,
salvation, principles of justice, definitions of social order).
Barrington Moore's classical and landmark study, Social
Origins of Democracy and Dictatorship: Lord and Peasant in
the Making of the Modern World (1966), explored the first
mode of conflict in the making of modern nation-states. All
social scientists are forever in his debt for that effort. It ranks
as one of the most important contributions to the fields of
comparative and historical sociology.</jats:p>