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Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism

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    About Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism

    Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism is a sustained exercise in historical sociology that shows how the slave-based societies of Ancient Greece and Rome eventually became the feudal societies of the Middle Ages. In the course of this study, Anderson vindicates and refines the explanatory power of historical materialism, while casting a fascinating light on the Ancient world, the Germanic invasions, nomadic society, and the different routes taken to feudalism in Northern, Mediterranean, Eastern and Western Europe.

    Through this work and its companion volume, Lineages of the Absolutist State, Anderson presents a Marxist history of Western political development that takes readers from the first stirrings of political consciousness in the classical world to the rise of absolutist monarchies in Europe and the birth of the modern epoch.

    About Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism

    The rise of the modern absolutist monarchies in Europe constitutes in many ways the birth of the modern historical epoch. Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism, the companion volume to Perry Anderson’s Lineages of the Absolutist State, is a sustained exercise in historical sociology to root the development of absolutism in the diverse routes taken from the slave-based societies of Ancient Greece and Rome to fully-fledged feudalism. In the course of this study Anderson vindicates and the refines the explanatory power of a Marxist conception of history, whilst casting a fascinating light on Greece, Rome, the Germanic invasions, nomadic society, and the different patterns of the evolution of feudalism in Northern, Mediterranean, Eastern and Western Europe.

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    About Perry Anderson

    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… More about Perry Anderson

    About Perry Anderson

    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… More about Perry Anderson

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    Category: Ancient World History | European World History

    Paperback | $29.95
    Published by Verso
    Mar 12, 2013 | 304 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 | ISBN 9781781680087

    Category: Ancient World History | European World History

    Ebook | $9.99
    Published by Verso
    Mar 12, 2013 | 308 Pages | ISBN 9781781680537

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    Praise

    “A complex, beautifully interwoven account of Europe from the ancient Greeks to modern absolutist monarchies … exhilarating.”—Guardian

    “Quite splendid … A powerful and lucid intelligence.”—Eric Hobsbawm, New Statesman

    “The breath-taking 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

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