Description:
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
Brief description:
John H. Kautsky is professor emeritus of political science at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author of Karl Kautsky, The Politics of Aristocratic Empires, and Social Democracy and the Aristocracy. In addition his work has appeared in The Journal of Politics, Midwest Journal of Political Science, and Communist and Post-Communist Studies.
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"An impressive piece of work. . . . The text is extremely rich and rewarding, reflecting the author's enormous investment in research and analysis. . . . This is the product of some years of research and will not be easily duplicated or surpassed."
--Gerhard Lenski, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill