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The origins of political order : From prehuman times to the French revolution

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Publication details: New York Farrar, Straus And Giroux 2011Description: 585p ixISBN:
  • 9781846682568
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.900000 FUK
Contents:
Table of Contents: part I: Before the state. The necessity of politics; The state of nature; The tyranny of cousins; Tribal societies : property, justice, war; The coming of the leviathan; part II: State building. Chinese tribalism; War and the rise of the Chinese state; The great Han system; Political decay and the return of patrimonial government; The Indian detour; Varnas and jatis; Weaknesses of Indian politics; Slavery and the Muslim exit from tribalism; The Mamluks save Islam; The functioning and decline of the Ottoman state; - Christianity undermines the family; part III: The rule of law. The origins of the rule of law; The church becomes a state; The state becomes a church; Oriental despotism; Stationary bandits; part IV: Accountable government. The rise of political accountability; Rente seekers; Patrimonialism crosses the Atlantic; East of the Elbe; Toward a more perfect absolutism; Taxation and representation; Why accountability? Why absolutism; part V: Toward a theory of political development. Political development and political decay; Political development, then and now.;
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Table of Contents:
part I: Before the state. The necessity of politics;
The state of nature;
The tyranny of cousins;
Tribal societies : property, justice, war;
The coming of the leviathan;
part II: State building. Chinese tribalism;
War and the rise of the Chinese state;
The great Han system;
Political decay and the return of patrimonial government;
The Indian detour;
Varnas and jatis;
Weaknesses of Indian politics;
Slavery and the Muslim exit from tribalism;
The Mamluks save Islam;
The functioning and decline of the Ottoman state;
- Christianity undermines the family;
part III: The rule of law. The origins of the rule of law;
The church becomes a state;
The state becomes a church;
Oriental despotism;
Stationary bandits;
part IV: Accountable government. The rise of political accountability;
Rente seekers;
Patrimonialism crosses the Atlantic;
East of the Elbe;
Toward a more perfect absolutism;
Taxation and representation;
Why accountability? Why absolutism;
part V: Toward a theory of political development. Political development and political decay;
Political development, then and now.;

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