FBA, Fellow of All Souls and Emeritus Gladstone Professor of Government and Public Administration in the University of Oxford (d.1993)Books by the sam

No review can fully capture the breadth and accessibility of S. E. Finer's posthumous magnum opus ... its clarity and readability must be emphasized ... Finer constantly reminds us of exceptions that explain the richness and diversity of polities.

• VOLUME I ; Conceptual Prologue ; BOOK I ; Context I ; 1. The Sumerian City State ; 2. The Kingdom of Egypt to the Fall of the Middle Kingdom (1678 BC) ; Context II ; 3. The Egyptian Polity at Zenith: The New Kingdom ; 4. The Assyrian Empire 745-612 BC ; 5. The Jewish Kingdoms 1025-587 BC ; BOOK II ; 1. The Persian Empire ; 2. The First Republics: The Greeks ; 3. The End of the Polis ; 4. The Roman Republic ; 5. The Formation of the Chinese State ; 6. The Han Empire ; 7. The Roman Empire: The Principate 27 BC - AD 284 ; 8. The Later Roman Empire: From Diocletian to Theodoric ; VOLUME II ; BOOK III ; Overview ; 1. The Byzantine Empire ; 2. The Empire of the Caliphate ; 3. The Tang Empire ; 4. Government under the Ming ; 5. The Feudal Background ; 6. The Regna ; 7. The Republican Alternative: Florence and Venice ; 8. Representative Assemblies ; VOLUME III ; BOOK IV ; Overview ; 1. Tokugawa Japan ; 2. China: The Golden Century of the Ching 1680-1780 ; 3. The Ottoman Empire: The Classical Age c.1566 ; 4. The Indian Experience and the Mughal Empire 1526-1712 ; 5. The Modern State ; 6. The Two Traditions: Absolute versus Parliamentary Monarchy ; 7. The Transplantation of the European State Models 1500-1715 ; 8. The Apogee of Absolute Monarchy: Europe c.1770-1780 ; BOOK V ; 1. Overview: Pathways to the Modern State ; 2. The American Revolution ; 3. The Legacy of the French Revolution ; 4. The Consitutionalization of the Absolute Monarchies of Europe 1815-1871 ; 5. Industrialization ; Bibliography

FBA, Fellow of All Souls and Emeritus Gladstone Professor of Government and Public Administration in the University of Oxford (d.1993)Books by the sam

No review can fully capture the breadth and accessibility of S. E. Finer's posthumous magnum opus ... its clarity and readability must be emphasized ... Finer constantly reminds us of exceptions that explain the richness and diversity of polities.

• VOLUME I ; Conceptual Prologue ; BOOK I ; Context I ; 1. The Sumerian City State ; 2. The Kingdom of Egypt to the Fall of the Middle Kingdom (1678 BC) ; Context II ; 3. The Egyptian Polity at Zenith: The New Kingdom ; 4. The Assyrian Empire 745-612 BC ; 5. The Jewish Kingdoms 1025-587 BC ; BOOK II ; 1. The Persian Empire ; 2. The First Republics: The Greeks ; 3. The End of the Polis ; 4. The Roman Republic ; 5. The Formation of the Chinese State ; 6. The Han Empire ; 7. The Roman Empire: The Principate 27 BC - AD 284 ; 8. The Later Roman Empire: From Diocletian to Theodoric ; VOLUME II ; BOOK III ; Overview ; 1. The Byzantine Empire ; 2. The Empire of the Caliphate ; 3. The Tang Empire ; 4. Government under the Ming ; 5. The Feudal Background ; 6. The Regna ; 7. The Republican Alternative: Florence and Venice ; 8. Representative Assemblies ; VOLUME III ; BOOK IV ; Overview ; 1. Tokugawa Japan ; 2. China: The Golden Century of the Ching 1680-1780 ; 3. The Ottoman Empire: The Classical Age c.1566 ; 4. The Indian Experience and the Mughal Empire 1526-1712 ; 5. The Modern State ; 6. The Two Traditions: Absolute versus Parliamentary Monarchy ; 7. The Transplantation of the European State Models 1500-1715 ; 8. The Apogee of Absolute Monarchy: Europe c.1770-1780 ; BOOK V ; 1. Overview: Pathways to the Modern State ; 2. The American Revolution ; 3. The Legacy of the French Revolution ; 4. The Consitutionalization of the Absolute Monarchies of Europe 1815-1871 ; 5. Industrialization ; Bibliography

FBA, Fellow of All Souls and Emeritus Gladstone Professor of Government and Public Administration in the University of Oxford (d.1993)Books by the sam

No review can fully capture the breadth and accessibility of S. E. Finer's posthumous magnum opus ... its clarity and readability must be emphasized ... Finer constantly reminds us of exceptions that explain the richness and diversity of polities.

• VOLUME I ; Conceptual Prologue ; BOOK I ; Context I ; 1. The Sumerian City State ; 2. The Kingdom of Egypt to the Fall of the Middle Kingdom (1678 BC) ; Context II ; 3. The Egyptian Polity at Zenith: The New Kingdom ; 4. The Assyrian Empire 745-612 BC ; 5. The Jewish Kingdoms 1025-587 BC ; BOOK II ; 1. The Persian Empire ; 2. The First Republics: The Greeks ; 3. The End of the Polis ; 4. The Roman Republic ; 5. The Formation of the Chinese State ; 6. The Han Empire ; 7. The Roman Empire: The Principate 27 BC - AD 284 ; 8. The Later Roman Empire: From Diocletian to Theodoric ; VOLUME II ; BOOK III ; Overview ; 1. The Byzantine Empire ; 2. The Empire of the Caliphate ; 3. The Tang Empire ; 4. Government under the Ming ; 5. The Feudal Background ; 6. The Regna ; 7. The Republican Alternative: Florence and Venice ; 8. Representative Assemblies ; VOLUME III ; BOOK IV ; Overview ; 1. Tokugawa Japan ; 2. China: The Golden Century of the Ching 1680-1780 ; 3. The Ottoman Empire: The Classical Age c.1566 ; 4. The Indian Experience and the Mughal Empire 1526-1712 ; 5. The Modern State ; 6. The Two Traditions: Absolute versus Parliamentary Monarchy ; 7. The Transplantation of the European State Models 1500-1715 ; 8. The Apogee of Absolute Monarchy: Europe c.1770-1780 ; BOOK V ; 1. Overview: Pathways to the Modern State ; 2. The American Revolution ; 3. The Legacy of the French Revolution ; 4. The Consitutionalization of the Absolute Monarchies of Europe 1815-1871 ; 5. Industrialization ; Bibliography