Injustice: The Social Bases of Obedience and Revolt

by Barrington Moore, Jr.

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This is a book about why people so often put up with being the victims of their societies and why at other times they become very angry and try with passion and forcefulness to do something about their situation. I his most ambition book to date, Barrington Moore, Jr explores a large part of the world's experience with injustice and its understanding of it. In search of general elements behind the acceptance of injustice he discusses the Untouchables of India, Nazi concentration camps, and the Milgram experiments on obedience to authority.
  • ISBN10 1349999989
  • ISBN13 9781349999989
  • Publish Date 6 March 1979 (first published 1 May 1978)
  • Publish Status Cancelled
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
  • Edition 1978 ed.
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 540
  • Language English