Before the State: Systemic Political Change in the West from the Greeks to the French Revolution
Before the State: Systemic Political Change in the West from the Greeks to the French Revolution
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA | ISBN: 0198294514 | edition 2008 | PDF | 576 pages | 3.16 mb
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA | ISBN: 0198294514 | edition 2008 | PDF | 576 pages | 3.16 mb
The idea that society, or civilization, is predicated on the "state" is a projection of present-day political ideology into the past. Nothing akin to what we call the "state" existed before the 19th century: it is a recent invention and the assumption that it is timeless, necessary for society, is simply part of its legitimating myth. The development, over the past three millennia, of the political structures of western civilization is shown here to have been a succession of individual, unrepeatable stages: what links them is not that every period re-enacts the "state" in a different guise–that is, re-enacts the same basic pattern–but that one period-specific pattern evolves into the next in a path-dependent process.
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