Lineages of the Absolutist State
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Lineages of the Absolutist State by Perry Anderson
Forty years after its original publication, Lineages of the Absolutist State remains an exemplary achievement in comparative history. Picking up from where its companion volume, Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism, left off, Lineages traces the development of Absolutist states in the early modern period from their roots in European feudalism, and assesses their various trajectories. Why didn't Italy develop into an Absolutist state in the same, indigenous way as the other dominant Western countries, namely Spain, France and England? On the other hand, how did Eastern European countries develop into Absolutist states similar to those of the West, when their social conditions diverged so drastically? Reflecting on examples in Islamic and East Asian history, as well as the Ottoman Empire, Anderson concludes by elucidating the particular role of European development within universal history.
A dazzlingly provocative narrative of the two millenia between Pericles and Louis XIV* Sunday Times *
What an intellectual pleasure it has been to read these texts. Anderson has a real ability for illuminating and succinct generalization. * Times Higher Educational Supplement *
The breathtaking range of conception and the architectural skill with which it has been executed make his work a formidable intellectual achievement. * New York Review of Books *
What an intellectual pleasure it has been to read these texts. Anderson has a real ability for illuminating and succinct generalization. * Times Higher Educational Supplement *
The breathtaking range of conception and the architectural skill with which it has been executed make his work a formidable intellectual achievement. * New York Review of Books *
Perry Anderson taught History at UCLA for thirty years and is an Editor at New Left Review. Recent books include Brazil Apart, The Antinomies of Antonio Gramsci and The H-Word: The Peripeteia of Hegemony.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781781680100 |
| ISBN 10 | 1781680108 |
| Title | Lineages of the Absolutist State |
| Author | Perry Anderson |
| Series | Verso World History |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Verso Books |
| Year published | 2013-03-12 |
| Number of pages | 574 |
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