Abstract
Abstract The foundation, rise, and fall of states, empires, and even “high cultures” can be mainly described as a result of the interactions between central powers and elite particularisms, the first often assuming the guise of monarchic absolutism, the latter of a hereditary aristocracy. This entry first proposes an overview of terminological and methodological questions and then presents some selected case studies (Ancient Egypt, pre‐imperial China, Classical Greece, Republican and imperial Rome, medieval and modern Europe) before finally outlining some overall structural analogies.
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