ebooks Infantry in Battle - The Infantry Journal Incorporated; Washington D.C.; 1939 by Infantry School Staff; Infantry Journal in History

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Forty years after its original publication; Lineages of the Absolutist State remains an exemplary achievement in comparative history. Picking up from where its companion volume; Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism; left off; Lineages traces the development of Absolutist states in the early modern period from their roots in European feudalism; and assesses their various trajectories. Why didn’t Italy develop into an Absolutist state in the same; indigenous way as the other dominant Western countries; namely Spain; France and England? On the other hand; how did Eastern European countries develop into Absolutist states similar to those of the West; when their social conditions diverged so drastically? Reflecting on examples in Islamic and East Asian history; as well as the Ottoman Empire; Anderson concludes by elucidating the particular role of European development within universal history.