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Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism
Perry Anderson
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Description for Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism
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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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Verso Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
576
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781680087
SKU
V9781781680087
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About Perry Anderson
Perry Anderson taught History at UCLA for thirty years and is an Editor at New Left Review. Recent books include Brazil Apart, The Antinomies of Antonio Gramsci and The H-Word: The Peripeteia of Hegemony.
Reviews for Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism
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.
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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 ... Read more