: the study of the process of social change throughout history | Hamilton Religion in the Medieval West pp |
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Slave society [ ] The Second Stage: may be called , considered to be the beginning of "class society" where private property appears | Benton Art of the Middle Ages p |
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: basic to the Western tradition of historiography | Dodwell Pictorial Arts of the West p |
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Epstein Economic and Social History pp | Kaufmann and Kaufmann Medieval Fortress pp |
Marxists, however, such as Lenin in his Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism, argue that the capitalist government is a powerful instrument for the furtherance of capitalism and the capitalist nation-state, particularly in the conquest of markets abroad.
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