{"product_id":"9781781680537","title":"Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism","description":"The rise of the modern absolutist monarchies in Europe constitutes in many ways the birth of the modern historical epoch. \u003ci\u003ePassages from Antiquity to Feudalism\u003c\/i\u003e, the companion volume to Perry Anderson’s \u003ci\u003eLineages of the Absolutist State\u003c\/i\u003e, is a sustained exercise in historical sociology to root the development of absolutism in the diverse routes taken from the slave-based societies of Ancient Greece and Rome to fully-fledged feudalism. In the course of this study Anderson vindicates and the refines the explanatory power of a Marxist conception of history, whilst casting a fascinating light on Greece, Rome, the Germanic invasions, nomadic society, and the different patterns of the evolution of feudalism in Northern, Mediterranean, Eastern and Western Europe.","brand":"Verso Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47171046506736,"sku":"9781781680537","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781781680537_p0.jpg?v=1763719863","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781781680537","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}