Peter Halden

Family Power (eBook, ePUB)

Kinship, War and Political Orders in Eurasia, 500-2018

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. März 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108852678
• Artikelnr.: 62746331

Autorenporträt

Peter Haldén is Associate Professor in the Department of Security, Strategy and Leadership at the Swedish Defence University, Stockholm

Inhaltsangabe

1.Introduction
2.How Social Science Separated Families from Political Order
3.Formless Kinship in Formless Kingdoms. Europe c.500-c.1000
4.Consolidating Dynasties and Realms. Europe c.1000-c.1500
5.Strong Aristocracies in Strong States. Europe c.1500-c.1800
6.The Revival and Sudden Death of Political Kinship. Europe c.1800-1918
7.The Arab Empires 632-c.900
8.Sacred Yet Supple. Kinship and Politics in Turkic-Mongol Empires c.900-c.1300
9.The Ubiquitous and Opaque Elites of the Ottoman Empire c.1300-c.1830
10.Clans and Dynasties in the Modern Middle East: Somalia and Saudi Arabia
11.Conclusions: Implications For State Theory, Power and Modernity
Bibliography
Index.