Traditionally, fantasy has woven together Medieval feudalism and faerie folklore in some fashion or other.
It will take years of enlightened government to replace feudalism with institutions that can deliver economic development and justice.
It was a vast improvement over the predecessor systems of feudalism and mercantilism.
Advocacy of what amounts to declining living standards and a return to feudalism might also prove a less than successful political strategy.
After the fall of the Roman Empire, trade dried up, cities declined and feudalism arose as nobles retreated to heavily armed country estates.
Away from the opera bouffe of Manila, Philippine politics looks less like liberal democracy than elective feudalism, where dominant local clans hold sway.
Feudalism had withered in most of western Europe by the middle of the 16th century, but serfdom didn't end formally in Russia until 1861.
Our international coalition is trying to advance Afghanistan from feudalism, through the industrial revolution, and into the information age -- in just one generation.
Despite its egalitarian rhetoric, communism reflected a return to feudalism.
This raises thorny questions about digital feudalism and the law.
And no matter how selfish our current capitalistic model may be, it is not as selfish as mercantilism and mercantilism was not as selfish as its own predecessor, feudalism.
They marched to Beijing's main shopping district along Wangfujing (the street of the prince's court), which was now renamed "Anti-Imperialist Street, " and proceeded to demolish everything that hinted of feudalism or capitalism.
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