In&nbsp;The Ancient City, Fustel de Coulanges hands us the skeleton key unlocking classical civilization: the Indo-European domestic cult. With a formidable command of primary sources, he shows this archaic religion to be the engine behind the social developments of the ancient world from remote pre-history down to late antiquity. This is the story of the descent of the traditional social order&nbsp;par excellence&nbsp;into something approximating liberalism, and it has never been better told, nor more fully explained. In his foreword, Dennis Bouvard views&nbsp;The Ancient City&nbsp;through the lens of generative anthropology, leveraging the originary hypothesis of Eric Gans to explain the work in terms of shared origins, sacrality, and the belief in a center. In so doing, he points the way to a post-liberal understanding of our own social order, informed by the imperative order described by Fustel.&nbsp;As with all Imperium Press titles, this edition is suitable for lay or academic use, with an extensive bibliography and index. This is now the definitive edition of a long overlooked work with the potential to change the trajectory of the dissident right.

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