Lineages of the Absolutist State
Published on 12. March 2013
574 pages
978-1-78168-463-4 (ISBN)
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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.
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English
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London
United Kingdom
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978-1-78168-463-4 (9781781684634)
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Lineages of the Absolutist State
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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.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- I. Western Europe
- 1. The Absolutist State in the West
- 2. Class and State: Problems of Periodization
- 3. Spain
- 4. France
- 5. England
- 6. Italy
- 7. Sweden
- II. Eastern Europe
- 1. The Absolutist State in the East
- 2. Nobility and Monarchy: the Eastern Variant
- 3. Prussia
- 4. Poland
- 5. Austria
- 6. Russia
- 7. The House of Islam
- III. Conclusions
- Two Notes:
- A. Japanese Feudalism
- B. The 'Asiatic Mode of Production'
- Index of Names
- Index of Authorities
- Copyright
