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The Politics of Aristocratic Empires (Paperback, New edition)
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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. Although previously
ignored by political science, powerful remnants of this old order
still persist in modern politics. The historical literature on
aristocratic empires typically is descriptive and treats each
empire as unique. By contrast, this work adopts an analytical,
explanatory, and comparative approach and clearly distinguishes
aristocratic empires from both primitive and more modern,
commercialized societies. It develops generalizations that are
supported and richly illustrated by data from many empires and
demonstrates that a pattern of politics prevailed across time,
space, and cultures from ancient Egypt five millennia ago to Saudi
Arabia five decades ago, from China and Japan to Europe, from the
Incas and the Aztecs to the Tutsi. Kautsky argues that aristocrats,
because they live off the labor of peasants, must perform the
primary governmental functions of taxation and warfare. Their
performance is linked to particular values and beliefs, and both
functions and ideologies in turn condition the stakes, the forms,
and the arenas of intra-aristocratic conflict-the politics of the
aristocracy. The author also analyzes the roles of the peasantry
and the townspeople in aristocratic politics and shows that peasant
revolts on any large scale occur only after commercial
modernization. He concludes with chapters on the modernization of
aristocratic empires and on the importance in modern politics of
institutional and ideological remnants of the old aristocratic
order.
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