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Kings or people : power and the mandate to rule / Reinhard Bendix.

Title
Kings or people : power and the mandate to rule / Reinhard Bendix.
Author
Bendix, Reinhard
Publication
Berkeley : University of California Press, c1978.

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Description
xii, 692 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Authority
  • Power (Social sciences)
  • Nation-state > History
  • Kings and rulers > History
  • Prerogative, Royal > History
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
PART 1: The Authority of Kings -- Sacred and Secular Foundations of Kingship -- Japan -- Russia -- Imperial Germany and Prussia -- England -- Kingship and Aristocracy as a Type of Rule -- PART 2: Toward a Mandate of the People -- Transformations of Western European Societies in the 16th Century -- Kings and People in England -- Toward the Nation-State: France -- Nation-Building: Germany -- Nation-Building: Japan -- Nation-Building: Russia -- From Royal Authority to Popular Mandate: 20th-Century Perspectives.
ISBN
0520023021
LCCN
^^^72085525^
OCLC
  • 4181614
  • SCSB-11656132
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library