Birth of the Leviathan Ertman Thomas
Birth of the Leviathan Ertman Thomas For many years scholars have sought to explain why the European states that emerged in the period before the French Revolution developed along such different…
Specifikacia Birth of the Leviathan Ertman Thomas
Birth of the Leviathan Ertman Thomas
For many years scholars have sought to explain why the European states that emerged in the period before the French Revolution developed along such different lines. What enabled some to develop bureaucratic administrative systems, while others remained dependent upon patrimonial practices? Why did some states become absolutist and others constitutionalist?
Ertman argues that two factors--local government and sustained geo-military competition--can explain most of the variation found across the This book presents a new theory of state-building in medieval and early modern Europe.