Family Power: Kinship, War and Political Orders in Eurasia, 500-2018

ISBN-13: 9781108495929 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 386 str.

Peter Halden

Opis

Explains why successful states and empires have developed by fostering collaboration between families and dynasties, and the state.

Recenzje

In a pathbreaking study of extraordinary historical and comparative scope, Halden brings the family back into politics from the shadow world to which it has been relegated by modern social science. He shows just how central kinship groups are to the creation and success of political orders and develops a richer understanding of the state that decenter's Weber's emphasis on violence and bureaucracy. Richard Ned Lebow, King's College London

Spis treści

1.Introduction; 2.How Social Science Separated Families from Political Order; 3.Formless Kinship in Formless Kingdoms. Europe c.500-c.1000; 4.Consolidating Dynasties and Realms. Europe c.1000-c.1500; 5.Strong Aristocracies in Strong States. Europe c.1500-c.1800; 6.The Revival and Sudden Death of Political Kinship. Europe c.1800-1918; 7.The Arab Empires 632-c.900; 8.Sacred Yet Supple. Kinship and Politics in Turkic-Mongol Empires c.900-c.1300; 9.The Ubiquitous and Opaque Elites of the Ottoman Empire c.1300-c.1830; 10.Clans and Dynasties in the Modern Middle East: Somalia and Saudi Arabia; 11.Conclusions: Implications For State Theory, Power and Modernity; Bibliography; Index.