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- catalog abstract ""Monarchies 1000-2000 surveys a form of government whose legitimacy rests not on voluntary consensus but on age-old custom, heredity and/or religious sanction. Global in scope and comparative in approach, W.M. Spellman's survey establishes connections between monarchy as idea and practice in a variety of historical and cultural contexts across a millennium when the system was without serious rival. Spellman examines the intellectual assumptions behind different models of monarchy, tracing the ways in which each of these assumptions shifted in response to historical factors including expanding literacy, the development of modern science and the growth of rationalism, and the decline of institutional religion. While no human institution has retreated as rapidly as monarchy in the modern period, the system's remarkable longevity invites us to weigh the significance of hierarchy, subordination and dependence as constants of the human experience."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12165515.
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""Monarchies 1000-2000 surveys a form of government whose legitimacy rests not on voluntary consensus but on age-old custom, heredity and/or religious sanction. Global in scope and comparative in approach, W.M. Spellman's survey establishes connections between monarchy as idea and practice in a variety of historical and cultural contexts across a millennium when the system was without serious rival. Spellman examines the intellectual assumptions behind different models of monarchy, tracing the ways in which each of these assumptions shifted in response to historical factors including expanding literacy, the development of modern science and the growth of rationalism, and the decline of institutional religion. While no human institution has retreated as rapidly as monarchy in the modern period, the system's remarkable longevity invites us to weigh the significance of hierarchy, subordination and dependence as constants of the human experience."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-303) and index.".
- catalog description "Preface -- Introduction: the idea of monarchy -- 1. Asianarchetypes: Chinese absolutism and Japanese symbolism -- 2. Monarchy without manuscripts: Sub-Saharan Africa and the Americas -- 3. Theocratic monarchy: Byzantium and the Islamic lands -- 4. The European anomaly, 1000-1500 -- 5. Monarchy and European hegemony, 1500-1914 -- 6. Endings and remnants: monarchy in the twentieth century -- 7. Monarchy and the state in the twenty-first century -- References -- Bibliography -- Index.".
- catalog extent "312 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Monarchies 1000-2000.".
- catalog identifier "1861890877".
- catalog isFormatOf "Monarchies 1000-2000.".
- catalog isPartOf "Globalities".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London : Reaktion,".
- catalog relation "Monarchies 1000-2000.".
- catalog subject "909 21".
- catalog subject "JC375 .S64 2001".
- catalog subject "Monarchy History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Preface -- Introduction: the idea of monarchy -- 1. Asianarchetypes: Chinese absolutism and Japanese symbolism -- 2. Monarchy without manuscripts: Sub-Saharan Africa and the Americas -- 3. Theocratic monarchy: Byzantium and the Islamic lands -- 4. The European anomaly, 1000-1500 -- 5. Monarchy and European hegemony, 1500-1914 -- 6. Endings and remnants: monarchy in the twentieth century -- 7. Monarchy and the state in the twenty-first century -- References -- Bibliography -- Index.".
- catalog title "Monarchies 1000-2000 / W.M. Spellman.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".