The Political Systems of Empires

by S.N. Eisenstadt and Shmuel N Eisenstadt

Book Overview

Winner of the prestigious MacIver Award when it was first published, this remains a towering work of modern political sociology, especially of macrosociology. Its main objective is comparative analysis of political commonalities found in different societies, both historical and present. The book seeks to find some pattern or laws in the structure and development of such systems. The imaginative use of data helps to bring order into what might otherwise...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1560006412
• ISBN13: 9781560006411
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 598 Pages
• Weight: 2.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.0" x 9.9"