The Formation of National States in Western Europe
Douban
Charles Tilly (Editor)
Overview
Examines what Ardant calls the ‘physiology of state-making’: how the builders of states actually performed, or tried to perform, the extractive, coercive, and coordinative side of their work. This emphasis on mechanisms draws attention away from the forms of states and the broadest ends of state-making toward the implications of alternative public policies.
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND TABLES
FOREWORD
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
1. Reflections on the History of European State-Making
2. State- and Nation-Building in Europe: The Role of the Military
3. Financial Policy and Economic Infrastructure of Modern States and Nations
4. Taxation, Sociopolitical Structure, and State-Building: Great Britain and Brandenburg-Prussia
5. The Police and Political Development in Europe
6. Food Supply and Public Order in Modern Europe
7. The Recruitment and Training of Administrative and Technical Personnel
8. Dimensions of State Formation and Nation-Building: A Possible Paradigm for Research on Variations within Europe
9. Western State-Making and Theories of Political Transformation
BIBLIOGRAPHY
CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX