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... absolutist state . Not once does he move from a view of absolutism as essentially ' a redeployed and recharged apparatus of feudal domination ' . 11 But of course , the formation of the absolutist state involved , as Anderson himself ...
... absolutist state . Not once does he move from a view of absolutism as essentially ' a redeployed and recharged apparatus of feudal domination ' . 11 But of course , the formation of the absolutist state involved , as Anderson himself ...
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... absolutism , but the absolutist state , like all other states , is a particular form of the collective power of a particular social class . Contemporary Marxist historians have generally demonstrated rather more clarity and consistency ...
... absolutism , but the absolutist state , like all other states , is a particular form of the collective power of a particular social class . Contemporary Marxist historians have generally demonstrated rather more clarity and consistency ...
Page 73
... absolutist state was abolished and replaced by the quite different set of political institutions which composed the constitutional monarchy.35 The abolition of the absolutist state implied , above all else , the abolition of that ...
... absolutist state was abolished and replaced by the quite different set of political institutions which composed the constitutional monarchy.35 The abolition of the absolutist state implied , above all else , the abolition of that ...
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The World Vision of Revolutionary Independency | 50 |
The English Revolutionary Crisis | 60 |
Reason Triumphant | 94 |
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