El estado absolutista

Synopsis of El estado absolutista

The absolutist state is a comparative analysis of the nature and development of the absolutist state in Europe. Perry Anderson places the absolutist states of the early modern period in the context of earlier European feudalism. The general structures of absolutism as a system of states in Western Europe from the Renaissance onwards are analyzed, and the relations between the monarchy and the nobility are examined. The work also offers a comparative perspective on absolutism in Eastern Europe, studying the absolutist monarchies of Prussia, Austria and Russia.