Birth of the leviathan : building states and regimes in medieval and early modern Europe
This book presents a new theory of state-building in medieval and early modern Europe. Ertman presents a new theory to explain the variation in political regimes and in state infrastructures in pre-French Revolution Europe.
Print Book, English, 1997
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 1997
Historia
xii, 363 p. ; 24 cm
9780521484275, 9780521482226, 0521484278, 0521482224
318283733
1. Introduction; 2. The origins of patrimonial absolutism in Latin Europe; 3. The triumph of patrimonial absolutism and the failure of reform in Latin Europe, c. 1500–1789; 4. Bureaucratic constitutionalism in Britain; 5. Bureaucratic absolutism in Germany; 6. Patrimonial constitutionalism in Hungary and Poland and its premature demise in Scandinavia; 7. Conclusion.
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