Feudalism had its faults as well as its merits; but it never conceived anything so contemptible of degrading to the character of a man as the flunkeyism that surrounded LOUIS XIV. and symbolized ...

A new book from Harvard scholar Keidrick Roy, “ American Dark Age: Racial Feudalism and the Rise of Black Liberalism ,” lays ...

This system is looking more and more like neo-feudalism. Just as the feudal lords of medieval Europe owned all of the land ...

Apparently, it has something to do with the national psychology. While we apportion the biggest blame for feudalism — and, indeed, there are valid reasons for it — we tend to overlook the ...

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login In 'Enlightened Feudalism', Jeremy Hayhoe demonstrates that these local institutions actually functioned with a degree of efficiency, ...

In this book, first published in 1992, Karen Orren challenges that account by arguing that a remnant of ancient feudalism was, in fact, embedded in the American governmental system, in the form of the ...