The New Old World

THE NEW OLD WORLD

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism Lineages of the Abso lutist State

Considerations on Western Marxism Arguments within English Marxism In th e Tracks of Historical Materialism

A Zone of Engagement English Questions The Origins of Postmo dernity Spectrum

THE NEW OLD WORLD •

PERRY ANDERSON

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For Alan Milward

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CONTENTS

Foreword

Xl

I

The Union

1 2

Origins

3

Theories

n

The Core

4

France

1 37

5

Germany

6

Italy

2 14 278

lli

The Eastern Question

7 8

Cyprus

355

Turkey

3 92

IV

Conclusion

Outcomes

3

47 79

9 Antecedents 1 0 Prognoses

4 75

Index

549

5 05

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The first versions of the following essays were published in the

London Review of Books: 'Origins ', 4 January and 26 January 1 9 96; 'Outcomes ', 20 September 2007; 'France ( 1 ) ', 2 September and 23 September 2004; 'Germany ( 1 ) ', 7 January 1 9 99; 'Italy ( 1 ) ', 2 1 March 2002; 'Italy ( II ) ', 26 February and 12 March 2009; 'Cyprus', 24 April 200 8; 'Turkey', 1 1 September and 25 September 200 8 . 'Germany' (II) was published in New Left Review No. 5 7, May-June 2009. An earlier version of 'Theories ' was given as a Max Weber Lecture at the European University Institute in 2007. I owe many debts in the writing of this book. I would like to thank, for their criticism or advice, my editors at the LRB and NLR, Mary-Kay Wilmers and Susan Watkins; and my friends Sebastian Bu dgen, Carlo Ginzburg, Serge Halimi,