Name: Lineages of the Absolutist State
ISBN: 9781781680100

Lineages of the Absolutist State

Perry Anderson

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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.

Book Details

Publisher: Verso
Publish Date: Mar 12nd, 2013
Pages: 576
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 8.20in - 5.40in - 1.30in - 1.40lb
EAN: 9781781680100
Categories: • Europe - General• Comparative Politics• History & Theory - General

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About the Author

Perry Anderson is the author of, among other books, Spectrum, Lineages of the Absolutist State, Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism, Considerations on Western Marxism, English Questions, The Origins of Postmodernity, and The New Old World. He teaches history at UCLA and is on the editorial board of New Left Review.

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Andrés Pertierra

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Historian of Cuba. LatAm & Caribbean History PhD Candidate @UWMadison. Bylines: @thenation @DissentMag I’m https://t.co/sn3zTPW2lK on BlueSky

Even today Perry Anderson will periodically come down from his mountaintop to drop another 60 page essay eviscerating some book or author Honestly, gotta respect that we’re never getting the sequel to lineages of the absolutist state but he always has time to be a hater

Vanity of vanities, all is vanity. Working on a PhD in history at Temple University. Study Central and Eastern Europe with an emphasis on Czechoslovakia

Pretty funny that "Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism" and "Lineages of the Absolutist State" are just one long set up to Perry Anderson's punchline that the development of feudalism is unique to Europe, and thereby the development of capitalism is unique to Europe

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Praise for this book

"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 people are saying

Andrés Pertierra

@ASPertierra

1 year

Historian of Cuba. LatAm & Caribbean History PhD Candidate @UWMadison. Bylines: @thenation @DissentMag I’m https://t.co/sn3zTPW2lK on BlueSky

Vanity of vanities, all is vanity. Working on a PhD in history at Temple University. Study Central and Eastern Europe with an emphasis on Czechoslovakia

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