WOOD, ALAN T.

Limits to Autocracy. From Sung Neo-Confucianism to a Doctrine of Political Rights.

Honolulu. University of Hawai'i Press. 1995. Stock ID #61456

Contents, preface, abbreviations, notes, selected bibliography, index, xvi+ 264pp. A good copy though traces of glue are apparent at hinges and upper edge front paste down damaged with a little loss. In a dustjacket.

"'In Limits to Autocracy' Wood argues against the prevalent view that neo-Confucianism laid the ideological foundations for the growth of autocracy. Wood argues "that Sung neo-Confucianists did not intend to enhance the power of the emperor but limit it." (Publisher's description).

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