The Politics of Aristocratic Empires

ISBN-13: 9781138537514 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 416 str.

John H. Kautsky

Opis

The Politics of Aristocratic Empires is a study of a political order that prevailed throughout much of the world for many centuries without any major social conflict or change and with hardly any government in the modern sense

Spis treści

1: Aristocratic Empires; 1: The Study of Aristocratic Empires; 2: The Commercialization of Aristocratic Empires; 3: The Origins of Aristocratic Empires; 2: The Aristocracy a Ruling Class; 4: The Aristocracy Defined; 5: The Aristocracy in the Economy; 6: Limited and Decentralized Government; 7: The Governmental Functions of the Aristocracy; 3: Part III The Politics of the Aristocracy; 8: Values and Ideology of the Aristocracy; 9: The Stakes of Aristocratic Politics; 10: The Arenas of Aristocratic Politics; 11: Stability and Instability; 4: Nonaristocrats in the Politics of the Aristocracy; 12: The Peasantry in the Politics of the Aristocracy; 13: Obstacles to Peasant Revolts in Aristocratic Empires; 14: The Townspeople in the Politics of the Aristocracy; 5: Conclusion; 15: Aristocratic Politics and Modernization; 16: Remnants and Legacies of Aristocratic Politics

O autorze

John H. Kautsky