Lineages of the Absolutist State

PerryR.Anderson(b.September1938,London)isaBritishhistorianandpoliticalessayist.Aspecialistinintellectualhistory,heisoftenidentifiedwiththepost-1956WesternMarxismoftheNewLeft.HeisProfessorofHistoryandSociologyattheUniversityofCalifornia,LosAngeles(UCLA)andaformereditoroftheNewLeftReview.HeisthebrotherofanthropologistandhistorianBenedictAnderson.