Lineages of the Absolutist State
Language: English
Published by New Left Review editions, 1975
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[Interesting provenance: From the private library of renowned historian, Philip D. Morgan.] Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Contemporary signature of Morgan on front end page, else unmarked. 573 p., 21 cm. "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." From the professional library of Dr. Philip D. Morgan, a professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. Morgan specializes in the African-American experience, the history of slavery, the early Caribbean, and the study of the early Atlantic world. Morgan is the author of more than 14 books on Colonial America and African American history. He has won both the Bancroft Prize and the Frederick Douglass Prize for his book Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry (1998).…
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- Title
- Lineages of the Absolutist State
- Author
- Anderson, Perry
- Publisher
- New Left Review editions
- Publication year
- 1975
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0902308165
- ISBN 13
- 9780902308169
- Item weight
- 29 ounces
- Dimensions
- 7x5x1
- Series
- Book 2 of 9: Verso World History
- Seller catalogs
- Political Science
En la primera parte de la obra se analizan las estructuras generales del absolutismo como sistema de Estados, en Europa occidental, a partir del Renacimiento; y se discute la difícil cuestión de las relaciones entre monarquía y nobleza que se institucionalizan a través del Estado absolutista, para cuya transformación en el tiempo el autor propone un esquema general de periodización. Se estudian después las trayectorias de los Estados absolutistas de España, Francia, Inglaterra y Suecia, comparándolos con el caso italiano, en el que no llegó a formarse un verdadero absolutismo.
La segunda parte esboza una perspectiva comparativa del absolutismo en Europa oriental, para tratar de comprender las razones por las que las distintas condiciones sociales de la mitad más atrasada del continente desembocan, no obstante, en formas políticas aparentemente similares a las occidentales. Se estudian las monarquías absolutistas de Prusia, Austria y Rusia; el contraejemplo polaco muestra cuál es el precio histórico de la incapacidad de la nobleza y la monarquía polacas para crear un Estado absolutista; el Imperio Otomano de los Balcanes se utiliza como contraste para subrayar la singularidad del absolutismo como fenómeno europeo. La obra se cierra con una discusión de la posición especial que ocupa el desarrollo europeo en la historia universal, haciendo hincapié en el significado de la herencia de la Antigüedad clásica.
Dos extensos apéndices estudian, por último, la noción de “modo de producción asiático” y la trayectoria histórica del feudalismo japonés, el único feudalismo surgido fuera de Europa.
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