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9781107111875, titled "Luther's Legacy: The Thirty Years War and the Modern Notion of 'State' in the Empire, 1530s to 1790s" | Cambridge Univ Pr, February 4, 2016, cover price $135.00

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Hardcover:

9780374227357 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, September 30, 2014, cover price $35.00

Paperback:

9780374535629 | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, October 13, 2015), cover price $18.00

CD/Spoken Word:

9781491584873 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, November 11, 2014), cover price $14.99

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This magisterial study proposes a revised and innovative view of the political history of Renaissance Italy. Drawing on comparative examples from across the peninsula and the kingdoms of Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica, an international team of leading scholars highlights the complexity and variety of the Italian world from the fourteenth to early sixteenth centuries, surveying the mosaic of kingdoms, principalities, signorie and republics against a backdrop of wider political themes common to all types of state in the period. The authors address the contentious problem of the apparent weakness of the Italian Renaissance political system. By repositioning the Renaissance as a political, rather than simply an artistic and cultural phenomenon, they identify the period as a pivotal moment in the history of the state, in which political languages, practices and tools, together with political and governmental institutions, became vital to the evolution of a modern European political identity.
By Isabella Lazzarini (editor)

Hardcover:

9781107010123 | Cambridge Univ Pr, May 7, 2012, cover price $180.00 | About this edition: This magisterial study proposes a revised and innovative view of the political history of Renaissance Italy.

Paperback:

9781107460249 | Reprint edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, November 6, 2014), cover price $39.99

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Product Description: This book is a sweeping historical survey of the origins, development and nature of state power. It demonstrates that Eurasia is home to a dominant tradition of arbitrary rule mediated through military, civil and ecclesiastical servants and a marginal tradition of representative and responsible government through autonomous institutions...read more

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9780415725972 | Routledge, May 19, 2014, cover price $145.00 | About this edition: This book is a sweeping historical survey of the origins, development and nature of state power.

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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.

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9781781680117 | Reprint edition (Verso Books, March 12, 2013), cover price $95.00 | About this edition: The political nature of Absolutism has long been a subject of controversy within historical materialism.
9780805270259 | Schocken Books, June 1, 1979, cover price $17.50

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9781781680100 | Reprint edition (Verso Books, March 12, 2013), cover price $29.95
9780860917106 | Verso Books, June 1, 1974, cover price $34.95

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Hardcover:

9780691142623 | Princeton Univ Pr, November 2, 2009, cover price $59.95

Paperback:

9780691156385 | Princeton Univ Pr, September 17, 2012, cover price $30.95

Miscellaneous:

9781400831647 | Princeton Univ Pr, December 21, 2009, cover price $39.50

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Product Description: This book reinterprets the EU using classical and early modern republican political theory. Bypassing the nation-state, it presents a new theory of the creation, change and demise of organizations in world politics. It also argues that the state is a problematic solution to 'state-failure' and explores alternative republican commonwealths...read more

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9780230273559 | Palgrave Macmillan, June 15, 2011, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: This book reinterprets the EU using classical and early modern republican political theory.

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Product Description: State Formation in Italy and Greece offers an up-to-date and comprehensive sampler of the current discourse concerning state formation in the central Mediterranean. While comparative approaches to the emergence of political complexity have been applied since the 1950s to Mesopotamia, Mesoamerica, Peru, Egypt and many other contexts, Classical Archaeology as a whole has not played a particularly active role in this debate...read more

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9781842179673 | Oxbow Books Ltd, May 3, 2011, cover price $49.99 | About this edition: State Formation in Italy and Greece offers an up-to-date and comprehensive sampler of the current discourse concerning state formation in the central Mediterranean.

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