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020			_a9781780230504
040			_aPMNP _beng _cKutubkhanah Diraja
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100			_93616 _aSpellman, W. M.
245			_aMonarchies 1000-2000 / _cW.M. Spellman
260			_aLondon _bReaktion Books _c2012
300			_a312p
520			_aMonarchies 1000 –2000 surveys a form of government whose legitimacy rests not on voluntary consensus but on age-old custom, heredity and/or religious sanction. Global in scope and comparative in approach, W. M. Spellman's survey establishes connections between monarchy as idea and practice in a variety of historical and cultural contexts across a millennium when the system was without serious rival. Spellman examines the intellectual assumptions behind different models of monarchy, tracing the ways in which each of these assumptions shifted in response to historical factors. While no human institution has retreated as rapidly in the modern period, monarchy's remarkable longevity invites us to weigh the significance of hierarchy, subordination and dependence as constants of the human experience.
650		0	_92762 _aMonarchy
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