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9781138930407 | Routledge, June 3, 2016, cover price $160.00
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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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9780374227357 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, September 30, 2014, cover price $35.00
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9780374535629 | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, October 13, 2015), cover price $18.00
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9781491584873 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, November 11, 2014), cover price $14.99
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9781107010123 | Cambridge Univ Pr, May 7, 2012, cover price $180.00
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9781107460249 | Reprint edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, November 6, 2014), cover price $39.99
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9781849466448 | Hart Pub, November 1, 2014, cover price $52.00
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9780415725972 | Routledge, May 19, 2014, cover price $145.00
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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9780691142623 | Princeton Univ Pr, November 2, 2009, cover price $59.95
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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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9780374533229 | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, March 27, 2012), cover price $18.00
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9780230120884 | Palgrave Macmillan, December 15, 2011, cover price $105.00
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9780230273559 | Palgrave Macmillan, June 15, 2011, cover price $105.00
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9781842179673 | Oxbow Books Ltd, May 3, 2011, cover price $49.99
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