Religion and war, historically compared: the Japanese Far East and the European Far West in the longue durée of two Middle Ages

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Comparative history has had a difficult genealogy. Max Weber, the sociologist and historian, produced – partly thanks to comparisons – sharp conceptual instruments, in particular types and ideal types that we still use. However, like so many monuments of his era, Weber’s thought was embedded in a widespread European exceptionalism; it aimed at explaining bourgeois modernity, democracy, and its liberties. But it also fed the hegemonic enterprises of emerging sociology. Weber’s French contempo...

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