The History of Government from the Earliest Times: Volume III: Empires, Monarchies, and the Modern State
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- Edition number and title :Volume III: Empires, Monarchies, and the Modern State
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 27 May 1999
- ISBN 9780198207917
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages644 pages
- Size 233x156x93 mm
- Weight 955 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This unprecedented survey and analysis of government is planetary in its reach. The late S.E. Finer's tour de force demonstrates the breadth of imagination and magisterial scholarship which characterized the work of one of the leading political scientists of the twentieth century.
MoreLong description:
No one has hitherto had the breadth of imagination and intellectual boldness to describe and analyse government throughout recorded history and throughout the world. This unique study of government is the culmination of the work of the late S. E. Finer, one of the leading political scientists of the twentieth century.
Ranging over 5,000 years, from the Sumerian city state to the modern European nation state, five themes emerge: state-building, military formats, belief systems, social stratification, and timespan. The three volumes examine both representative and exceptional polities, and focus on political elites of different types.
The first volume, Ancient Monarchies and Empires opens with Finers masterly Conceptual Prologue, setting out the entire scope and structure of The History. He goes on to consider early examples of the predominantly palace type of polity, notably in respect of the Kingdoms of Egypt and the Empires of Assyria, Persia, Han China, and Rome; interspersed with consideration of the exceptional Jewish Kingdoms and the Greek and Roman Republics.
Volume II, The Intermediate Ages encompasses the church polities of the Byzantine Empire and the Caliphate; the evolution of the Tang and Ming Empires in China; the characteristics of feudal Europe, the republican alternatives of Florence and Venice, and finally the growth of representative assemblies across Europe.
Volume III, Empires, Monarchies, and the Modern State opens with Tokugawa Japan and thence reviews the evidence on the Ching, Ottoman, and Mughal Empires, before turning to facets of the re-creation, modernization, and transplantation of the European state model. It concludes with the synoptic review of Pathways to the Modern State.
Professor Finer's cogent descriptive analysis offers both an invaluable reference resource and an exhilarating journey across time and space.
No review can fully capture the breadth and accessibility of S. E. Finer's posthumous magnum opus ... its clarity and readability must be emphasized ... Finer constantly reminds us of exceptions that explain the richness and diversity of polities.
Table of Contents:
VOLUME I
Conceptual Prologue
Book I
Context I
The Sumerian City State
The Kingdom of Egypt to the Fall of the Middle Kingdom (1678 BC)
Context II
The Egyptian Polity at Zenith: The New Kingdom
The Assyrian Empire 745-612 BC
The Jewish Kingdoms 1025-587 BC
Book II
The Persian Empire
The First Republics: The Greeks
The End of the Polis
The Roman Republic
The Formation of the Chinese State
The Han Empire
The Roman Empire: The Principate 27 BC - AD 284
The Later Roman Empire: From Diocletian to Theodoric
VOLUME II
Book III
Overview
The Byzantine Empire
The Empire of the Caliphate
The Tang Empire
Government under the Ming
The Feudal Background
The Regna
The Republican Alternative: Florence and Venice
Representative Assemblies
VOLUME III
Book IV
Overview
Tokugawa Japan
China: The Golden Century of the Ching 1680-1780
The Ottoman Empire: The Classical Age c.1566
The Indian Experience and the Mughal Empire 1526-1712
The Modern State
The Two Traditions: Absolute versus Parliamentary Monarchy
The Transplantation of the European State Models 1500-1715
The Apogee of Absolute Monarchy: Europe c.1770-1780
Book V
Overview: Pathways to the Modern State
The American Revolution
The Legacy of the French Revolution
The Consitutionalization of the Absolute Monarchies of Europe 1815-1871
Industrialization
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