Publisher's Synopsis
A sequel to the first volume in this series, Class and Social Development: A New Theory of the Middle Classes (SAGE 1982), this integrated collection of essays offers a refreshingly critical, comprehensive picture of the middle classes′ role in world development. It deserves serious examination by researchers specializing in Third World regions, as well as by students and teachers in fields such as political development, rural sociology, and Marxist studies.
`Social scientists of many political persuasions will find this volume a provocative source of analysis on the historical, social and political roots of class relations and the development of the state in the Third World.′ -- Development Update, Vol 4 No 2, 1985
`This book succeeds admirably in its purpose. Each chapter is an interesting and theoretically sophisticated account of a concrete historical situation. The overall standard is impressively high′ -- Journal of Development Studies, 1986
