Coercion, Capital and European States: AD 990 - 1992

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Wiley, Apr 8, 1993 - History - 288 pages
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In this pathbreaking work, now available in paperback, Charles Tilly challenges all previous formulations of state development in Europe. Specifically, Tilly charges that most available explanations fail because they do not account for the great variety of kinds of states which were viable at different stages of European history, and because they assume a unilinear path of state development resolving in today's national state.

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I really enjoyed this title. Tilly starts off by stating that his goal is to understand the origins of the national state in Europe. Now, first off, when I initially read that I thought that national ... Read full review

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Charles Tilly is University Distinguished Professor at the New School for Social Research, where he directs the Centre for Studies of Social Change.

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TitleCoercion, Capital and European States: AD 990 - 1992
Volume 1 of Studies in Social Discontinuity
AuthorCharles Tilly
Editionillustrated, reprint, revised
PublisherWiley, 1993
ISBN1557863687, 9781557863683
Length288 pages
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History / Modern / 19th Century
  
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