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Family Power - Kinship, War and Political Orders in Eurasia, 500-2018 (Hardcover)
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Family Power - Kinship, War and Political Orders in Eurasia, 500-2018 (Hardcover)
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Since the seventeenth century, scholars have argued that kinship as
an organizing principle and political order are antithetical. This
book shows that this was simply not the case. Kinship, as a
principle of legitimacy and in the shape of dynasties, was
fundamental to political order. Throughout the last one and a half
millennia of European and Middle Eastern history, elite families
and polities evolved in symbiosis. By demonstrating this symbiosis
as a basis for successful polities, Peter Halden unravels
long-standing theories of the state and of modernity. Most social
scientists focus on coercion as a central facet of the state and
indeed of power. Instead, Halden argues that much more attention
must be given to collaboration, consent and common identity and
institutions as elements of political order. He also demonstrates
that democracy and individualism are not necessary features of
modernity.
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