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Recommended Bibliography Extended Bibliography for "The Theory and Practice of the State in Historical Perspective" Works marked with an asterisk are particularly recommended. GENERAL *P Anderson Lineages of the Absolutist State J W. Allen History of Political Thought in the 16th Century T Aston, ed Crisis in Europe *TH Aston & CHE Philpin The Brenner Debate J Burns, ed The Cambridge History of Political Thought 1450-1700 C Cipolla Fontana Economic History of Europe S Clark State and Status J de Vries The Economy of Europe in an Age of Crisis JR Hale Renaissance Europe 1480-1520 I Hampsher-Monk A History of Modern Political Thought *RH Hilton, et al. The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism B Moore Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy C Mooers The Making of Bourgeois Europe SM Okin Women in Western Political Thought C Pateman The Sexual Contract TK Rabb The Struggle for Stability in Early Modern Europe T Skocpol States and Social Revolutions *Q Skinner The Foundations of Modern Political Thought (2 vols.) C Tilly The Foundation of National States in Western Europe I Wallerstein Origins of the Modern World System *EM Wood Citizens to Lords *EM Wood Democracy Against Capitalism P Zagorin Rebels and Rulers 1500-1660 (2 vols.) ORIGINS OF THE STATE / EARLY STATES R Cohen & ER Service Origins of the State: The Anthropology of Cultural Evolution *Jared Diamond Guns, Germs, and Steel Frederick Engels The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State Moses I Finley Early Greece: The Bronze and Archaic Ages *Morton Fried The Evolution of Political Society Max Gluckman Politics, Law and Ritual in Tribal Society Maurice Godelier Perspectives in Marxist Anthropology --- "La notion de 'mode de Production Asiatique' et les schemes marxistes d'evolution des sociétés," in Sur le mode de production Asiatique Marvin Harris Cannibals and Kings: The Origins of Cultures Lawrence Krader The Formation of the State *ER Leach Political Systems of Highland Burma *Karl Marx Capital , III, Ch. 47, "Genesis of Capitalist Ground Rent" JVS Megaw Hunters, Gatherers and First Farmers Beyond Europe: An Archaeological Survey *Karl Polanyi The Great Transformation , Ch. 3-4 *---, et al . Trade and Market in the Early Empires *Marshall Sahlins Stone Age Economics Elman R Service Origins of the State and Civilization Max Weber Economy and Society , Ch. IX "Political Communities" -1- The Asiatic Mode of Production *Perry Anderson "The 'Asiatic Mode of Production'", in Lineages of the Absolutist State , pp. 462-549 A.M. Baily & J.R. Llobera, eds. The Asiatic Mode of Production: Science and Politics Stephen Dunn The Fall and Rise of the Asiatic Mode of Production Jonathan Friedman System, Structure, and Contradiction in the Evolution of ‘Asiatic’ Social Formations *Maurice Godelier "La notion de 'mode de Production Asiatique' et les schemes marxistes d'evolution des sociétés," in Sur le mode de production Asiatique B. Hindess & P. Hirst “The Asiatic Mode of Production” in Pre-Capitalist Modes of Production Irfan Habib Agrarian Systems of Mughal India, 1556-1707 --- “Classifying Pre-Colonial India” Caglar Keyder “The Dissolution of the Asiatic Mode of Production” *Lawrence Krader The Asiatic Mode of Production: Sources, Development and Critique in the Writings of Karl Marx ---, ed. The Ethnological Notebooks of Karl Marx Brendan O’Leary The Asiatic Mode of Production: Oriental Despotism, Historical Materialism and Indian History K. Marx & F. Engels The First Indian War of Independence: 1857-1859 Marian Sawer Marxism and the Question of the Asiatic Mode of Production Bryan S. Turner Marx and the End of Orientalism Daniel Thorner “Marx on India and the Asiatic Mode of Production” Karl Wittfogel Oriental Despotism: A Comparative Study of Total Power ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME The State and Society in Ancient Greece *Perry Anderson Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism Anthony Andrewes Greek Society *MM Austin and Economic and Social History of Ancient Greece P Vidal-Naquet W Robert Conner The New Politicians of Fifth-Century Athens Victor Ehrenberg From Solon to Socrates *--- The Greek State (2nd ed) --- The People of Aristophanes Moses I Finley The Age of Odysseus *--- The Ancient Economy --- Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology *--- Politics in the Ancient World AHM Jones Athenian Democracy MR Lefkowitz and Women's Life in Greece and Rome: A Source Book in Translation MB Fant Naphtali Lewis The Fifth Century B.C. Andrew Lintott Violence, Civil Strife and Revolution in the Classical City Oswyn Murray Early Greece *Martin Ostwald From Popular Sovereignty to the Sovereignty of Law: Law, Society and Politics in Fifth-Century Athens Sarah B Pomeroy Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity GEM de Ste Croix The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World --- "Karl Marx and the History of Classical Antiquity," Arethusa , 8 (1975) 7-41 AM Snodgrass Archaeology and the Rise of the Greek State --- Archaic Greece Chester C Starr The Economic and Social Growth of Early Greece J Wickersham and The Fourth Century B.C. G Vergrugge -2- Thomas Wiedemann Greek and Roman Slavery *Ellen Meiksins Wood Peasant-Citizen and Slave: the Foundations of Athenian Democracy The Political Thought of Aristotle *AWH Adkins "The Connection Between Aristotle's Ethics and Politics ," Political Theory 12(1984)1 29-49 Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics --- Politics *Richard Kraut Aristotle on the Human Good GER Lloyd Aristotle: the Growth and Structure of his Thought John B Morrall Aristotle RG Mulgan Aristotle's Political Theory SM Okin Women in Western Political Thought , Pt. II *Karl Polanyi "Aristotle Discovers the Economy," in Trade and Market in the Early Empires TE Sinclair History of Greek Political Thought J Schmidt "A Raven With a Halo: The Translation of Aristotle's Politics ," History of Political Thought 7(1986)2 295-319 *EM Wood and N Wood Class Ideology and Ancient Political Theory State and Society in Ancient Rome: The Roman Republic and Early Empire FE Adcock Roman Political Ideas and Practice Perry Anderson Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism E Badian Roman Imperialism in the Late Republic M Beard & MH Crawford Rome in the Late Republic: Problems and Interpretations *Peter Brunt Italian Manpower, 225 BC-AD 14 --- Social Conflicts in the Roman Republic MH Crawford The Roman Republic Moses I Finley The Ancient Economy --- Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology --- Slavery in Classical Antiquity *--- Studies in Roman Property *Peter Garnsey "Peasants in Ancient Roman Society," Journal of Peasant Studies , 3 (1976) 221-235 Mathias Gelzer The Roman Nobility ES Gruen The Last Generation of the Roman Republic Keith Hopkins Conquerors and Slaves HF Jolowicz and Historical Introduction to the Study of Roman Law B Nicholas MR Lefkowitz & MB Fant Women's Life in Greece and Rome AW Lintott Violence in Republican Rome R MacMullen Roman Social Relations, 50 BC to AD 284 Claude Nicolet The World of the Citizen in Republican Rome Polybius The Histories , Bk. VI Sarah B Pomeroy Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves HH Scullard A History of the Roman World GEM de Ste Croix The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World Robin Seager The Crisis of the Roman Republic *Ronald Syme The Roman Revolution LR Taylor Party Politics in the Age of Caesar Joseph Vogt Ancient Slavery and the Ideal of Man FM Walbank Polybius Thomas Wiedemann Greek and Roman Slavery -3- The Political Thought of Cicero FE Adcock Roman Political Ideas and Practice Cicero De Officiis --- De Re Publica, De Legibus Moses I Finley The Ancient Economy *WK Lacey Cicero and the End of the Roman Republic --- & BMV Wilson Res Publica: Roman Politics and Society According to Cicero AW Lintott Violence in Republican Rome TN Mitchell Cicero: The Ascending Years Elizabeth Rawson Cicero, A Portrait *--- "The Ciceronian Aristocracy and Its Properties," in Finley, Studies in Roman Property C Wirszubski Libertas as a Political Idea at Rome During the Late Republic and Early Principate *Neal Wood Cicero's Social and Political Thought The Later Empire *Peter Brown The World of Late Antiquity Moses I Finley The Ancient Economy WHC Frend The Donatist Church Peter Heather The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians *AHM Jones The Later Roman Empire (2 vols.) --- The Roman Economy Chester G Starr The Roman Empire 27 BC-AD 476 The Political Thought of Augustine Peter Brown Augustine of Hippo, A Biography *--- Religion and Society in the Age of St Augustine Augustus Caesar Res Gestae Herbert A Deane Political and Social Ideas of St Augustine GEM de Ste Croix The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World Max Weber The Agrarian Sociology of Ancient Civilization , pp. 147-259 *Neal Wood "African Peasant Terrorism and Augustine's Political Thought," in History from Below: Studies in Popular Protest and Popular Ideology in Honour of George Rudé , ed. F. Krantz FROM THE ANCIENT WORLD TO CAPITALISM The Development of Feudalism *Perry Anderson Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism *Bisson, Barthelemy, White, “The Feudal Revolution” and “Debate”, Past & Present , 142, 152 & 155 Reuter, Wickham *Marc Bloch Feudal Society (2 vol.) --- "The Rise of Dependent Cultivation and Seignorial Institutions," in The Cambridge Economic History , (2nd ed.) I T.J. Byres &H. Mukhia, eds. Feudalism and Non-European Societies Carlo Cipolla Fontana Economic History of Europe , v. 1 --- Before the Industrial Revolution *George C. Comninel “English Feudalism and the Origins of Capitalism,” in Journal of Peasant Studies , 27 (4), July 2000 -4- Maurice Dobb Studies in the Development of Capitalism P. Dockès Medieval Slavery and Liberation Georges Duby The Early Growth of the European Economy --- The Chivalrous Society *--- Rural Economy and Country Life in the Medieval West --- The Three Orders: Feudal Society Imagined Guy Forquin Lordship and Feudalism in the Middle Ages FL Ganshof Feudalism Patrick Geary Before France and Germany AF Havighurst The Pirenne Thesis R Hodges Dark Age Economics Edward James The Origins of France, From Clovis to the Capetians, 500-1000 AHM Jones The Later Roman Empire , Ch.
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