"Cover"--"Half Title"--"Title" -- "Copyright" -- "Contents" -- "Preface" -- "1 Origins and Destinations" -- "The social and intellectual background" -- "Social Origins: the argument" -- "The democratic route" -- "The Asian cases" -- "Theoretical implications" -- "Social Origins: the critical response" -- "2 Certainty and Choice" -- "The Enlightenment" -- "A revised agenda" -- "Science and morality" -- "Practical objectives" -- "3 Freedom and Necessity" -- "Constants and variables" -- "Functionalism and evolutionism" -- "Reason and anger" -- "Misery and happiness" -- "Unresolved dilemmas" -- "4 Politics and Power" -- "The dilemma of power" -- "Lord and peasant" -- "Causes and consequences" -- "Tradition and style" -- "Strengths and weaknesses" -- "5 Terror and Justice" -- "'The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come'" -- "Predatory democracy" -- "Social bases of obedience and revolt" -- "The making of the German working class" -- "Anglo-German comparisons" -- "Historical alternatives" -- "A theory of injustice" -- "Social contract" -- "The discovery of injustice" -- "Summary and critique" -- "6 History and Truth" -- "Barrington Moore and E.P. Thompson" -- "Narrative history and comparative sociology" -- "Ideology and emancipation" -- "Notes" -- "Bibliography