245: $a Old World empires : cultures of power and governance in Eurasia
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082: $a 950 NIA
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250: $b Oxford University Press
250: $c 2014
250: $a 1st
300: $a 668
020: $c 1595.00 PKR
041: $a English
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246: "This book is a sweeping historical survey of the origins, development and nature of state power. It demonstrates that Eurasia is home to a dominant tradition of arbitrary rule mediated through military, civil and ecclesiastical servants and a marginal tradition of representative and responsible government through autonomous institutions. The former tradition finds expression in hierarchically organized and ideologically legitimated continental bureaucratic states while the latter manifests itse
246: # State-History; Eurasia-governance; State-History; Order-History; Comparative government-History