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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Verso Books
Publication date
March 12, 2013
Pages
573
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
Reprint
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781781680117
ISBN-10
1781680116
Dimensions
1.50 by 5.75 by 8.75 in.
Weight
1.90 lbs.
Availability§
Publisher Out of Stock Indefinitely
Published in
Great Britain
Original list price
$95.00
Subjects
§As reported by publisher
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: The political nature of Absolutism has long been a subject of controversy within historical materialism. Developing considerations advanced in Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism, this book situates the Absolutist states of the early modern epoch against the prior background of European feudalism. It is divided into two parts. The first discusses the overall structures of Absolutism as a state-system in Western Europe, from the Renaissance onwards. It then looks in turn at the trajectory of each of the specific Absolutist states in the dominant countries of the West—Spain, France, England and Sweden, set off against the case of Italy, where no major indigenous Absolutism developed.
The second part of the work sketches a comparative prospect of Absolutism in Eastern Europe. The peculiarities, as well as affinities, of Eastern Absolutism as a distinct type of royal state, are examined. The variegated monarchies of Prussia, Austria and Russia are surveyed, and the lessons asked of the counter-example of Poland. Finally, the structure of the Ottoman Empire in the Balkans is taken as an external gauge by which the singularity of Absolutism as a European phenomenon is assessed. The work ends with some observations on the special position occupied by European development within universal history, which draws themes from both Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism and Lineages of the Absolutist State together into a single argument—within their common limits—as materials for debate.
The second part of the work sketches a comparative prospect of Absolutism in Eastern Europe. The peculiarities, as well as affinities, of Eastern Absolutism as a distinct type of royal state, are examined. The variegated monarchies of Prussia, Austria and Russia are surveyed, and the lessons asked of the counter-example of Poland. Finally, the structure of the Ottoman Empire in the Balkans is taken as an external gauge by which the singularity of Absolutism as a European phenomenon is assessed. The work ends with some observations on the special position occupied by European development within universal history, which draws themes from both Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism and Lineages of the Absolutist State together into a single argument—within their common limits—as materials for debate.
Editions
Hardcover
The price comparison is for this edition
Reprint edition from Verso Books (March 12, 2013)
9781781680117 | details & prices | 573 pages | 5.75 × 8.75 × 1.50 in. | 1.90 lbs | List price $95.00
About: The political nature of Absolutism has long been a subject of controversy within historical materialism.
About: The political nature of Absolutism has long been a subject of controversy within historical materialism.
from Schocken Books (June 1, 1979)
9780805270259 | details & prices | List price $17.50
Paperback
Reprint edition from Verso Books (March 12, 2013)
9781781680100 | details & prices | 573 pages | 5.50 × 8.25 × 1.50 in. | 1.40 lbs | List price $29.95
from Verso Books (June 1, 1974)
9780860917106 | details & prices | 5.25 × 8.00 × 1.75 in. | 1.50 lbs | List price $34.95
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