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Feudal America
Author | : Vladimir Shlapentokh,Joshua Woods |
Publsiher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780271037813 |
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"Uses a feudal model to analyze contemporary American society, comparing its essential characteristics to those of medieval European societies"--Provided by publisher.
Feudal America
Author | : Vladimir Shlapentokh,Joshua Woods |
Publsiher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 171 |
Release | : 2015-10-13 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780271075020 |
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Do Americans live in a liberal capitalist society, where evenhanded competition rules the day, or a society in which big money, private security, and personal relations determine key social outcomes? Vladimir Shlapentokh and Joshua Woods argue that the answer to these questions cannot be found among the conventional models used to describe the nation. Offering a new analytical tool, the authors present a provocative explanation of the nature of contemporary society by comparing its essential characteristics to those of medieval European societies. Their feudal model emphasizes five elements: the weakness of the state and its inability to protect its territory, guarantee the security of its citizens, and enforce laws; conflicts and collusions between and within organizations that involve corruption and other forms of illegal or semilegal actions; the dominance of personal relations in political and economic life; the prevalence of an elitist ideology; and the use of private agents and organizations for the provision of safety and security. Feudal America urges readers to suspend their forward-thinking and futurist orientations, question linear notions of social and historical progression, and look for explanations of contemporary social problems in medieval European history.
Mediaeval Feudalism
Author | : Carl Stephenson |
Publsiher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1942 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0801490138 |
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Gives a clear and concise account of the feudal system, from its origin and growth to its decay. Also covers the principles of feudal tenure, chivalry, the military life of the nobility, and the workings of the feudal government.
Medieval America
Author | : Robert Yusef Rabiee |
Publsiher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2020-12-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780820358376 |
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Medieval America analyzes literary, legal, and historical archives that help tell a new story about the formation of American culture. Against Cold War–era studies of U.S. culture that argued, following political scientist Louis Hartz’s “liberal consensus” model, that the United States emerged from the Revolutionary era free from Europe’s feudal institutions and uninterested in the production of its medieval culture productions, Robert Yusef Rabiee contends that feudal law and medieval literature were structural components of the American cultural imaginary in the nineteenth century. The racial, gender, and class formations that emerged in the first era of U.S. nation building were deeply indebted to medieval social, political, and religious thought—an observation that challenges the liberal consensus model and allows us to better grasp how American social roles developed. Far from casting off feudal tradition, the early United States folded feudalism into its emerging liberal order, creating a knotted system of values and practices that continue to structure the American experience. Sometimes, the feudal residuum contradicted the liberal values of the Unites States. Other times, the feudal residuum bolstered those values, revealing deep sympathies between so-called “modern” and “premodern” political thought. Medieval America thus aims to reorient our discussions about American cultural and political development in terms of the long arc of European history.
It s a Feudal Feudal World
Author | : Stephen Shapiro |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : JUVENILE NONFICTION |
ISBN | : 155451553X |
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Presents facts on the structure of feudal society, showing how people lived and worked, and major events of the time such as religious persecution and the crusades.
Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America
Author | : Andre Gunder Frank |
Publsiher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 371 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780853450931 |
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Originally published: Monthly Review Press, 1967.
The Coming of Neo Feudalism
Author | : Joel Kotkin |
Publsiher | : Encounter Books |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2023-01-10 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781641772853 |
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Following a remarkable epoch of greater dispersion of wealth and opportunity, we are inexorably returning towards a more feudal era marked by greater concentration of wealth and property, reduced upward mobility, demographic stagnation, and increased dogmatism. If the last seventy years saw a massive expansion of the middle class, not only in America but in much of the developed world, today that class is declining and a new, more hierarchical society is emerging. The new class structure resembles that of Medieval times. At the apex of the new order are two classes—a reborn clerical elite, the clerisy, which dominates the upper part of the professional ranks, universities, media and culture, and a new aristocracy led by tech oligarchs with unprecedented wealth and growing control of information. These two classes correspond to the old French First and Second Estates. Below these two classes lies what was once called the Third Estate. This includes the yeomanry, which is made up largely of small businesspeople, minor property owners, skilled workers and private-sector oriented professionals. Ascendant for much of modern history, this class is in decline while those below them, the new Serfs, grow in numbers—a vast, expanding property-less population. The trends are mounting, but we can still reverse them—if people understand what is actually occurring and have the capability to oppose them.
Belated Feudalism
Author | : Karen Orren |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 052142254X |
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Traditional theories of American political development depict the American state as a thoroughly liberal state from its very inception. In this book, first published in 1992, Karen Orren challenges that account by arguing that a remnant of ancient feudalism was, in fact, embedded in the American governmental system, in the form of the law of master and servant, and persisted until well into the twentieth century. The law of master and servant was, she reveals, incorporated in the US Constitution and administered from democratic politics. The fully legislative polity that defines the modern liberal state was achieved in America, Orren argues, only through the initiatives of the labor movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and was finally ushered in as part of the processes of collective bargaining instituted by the New Deal. This book represents a fundamental reinterpretation of constitutional change in the United States and of the role of American organized labor, which is shown to be a creator of liberalism, rather than a spoiler of socialism.