Birth of the Leviathan: Building States and Regimes in Medieval and Early Modern Europe.
Thomas Ertman
For many years scholars have sought to explain why the European states which emerged in period before French Revolution developed along such different lines. Why did some become absolutist and others constitutionalist? What enabled develop bureaucratic administrative systems, while remained dependent upon patrimonial practices? This book presents a new theory of state-building medieval early modern Europe. Ertman argues that two factors - organisation local government at time state formation timing sustained geo-military competition can most variation political regimes infrastructures found across continent during second half eighteenth century. Drawing on insights historical sociology, comparative politics, economic history, this makes compelling case for value interdisciplinary approaches study development.
The Sixteenth century journal