Coercion, Capital and European States, A.D. 990 - 1992 - Tilly, Charles

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Publisher
Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
ISBN-10
1557863687
ISBN-13
9781557863683
eBay Product ID (ePID)
464657

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
288 Pages
Publication Name
Coercion, Capital and European States, A. D. 990-1992
Language
English
Subject
Economic Conditions, Modern / 19th Century, Europe / General
Publication Year
1993
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Business & Economics, History
Author
Charles Tilly
Series
Studies in Social Discontinuity Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback

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0.9 in
Item Weight
15.2 Oz
Item Length
8.9 in
Item Width
5.9 in

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Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
93-173264
Reviews
"Closely argued and thought-provoking book." Economic History ReviewTilly's thesis is presented with great lucidity... contributed to perform a service not merely for historians, but for mankind." French HistoryAn important, provocative theory, with much originality and richly documented .... extremely well written." American Journal of SociologyThis is a good and important book. It is well written, and it presents the complex history of European state formation over a time span of one thousand years in a most understandable way. With a profound knowledge of history and an amazing compository skill, Tilly takes his readers by the hand and leads them." International Review of Social History, Closely argued and thought-provoking book." Economic History Review"Tilly's thesis is presented with great lucidity... contributed to perform a service not merely for historians, but for mankind." French History"An important, provocative theory, with much originality and richly documented .... extremely well written." American Journal of Sociology"This is a good and important book. It is well written, and it presents the complex history of European state formation over a time span of one thousand years in a most understandable way. With a profound knowledge of history and an amazing compository skill, Tilly takes his readers by the hand and leads them." International Review of Social History, "Closely argued and thought-provoking book." Economic History Review "Tilly's thesis is presented with great lucidity... contributed to perform a service not merely for historians, but for mankind." French History "An important, provocative theory, with much originality and richly documented .... extremely well written." American Journal of Sociology "This is a good and important book. It is well written, and it presents the complex history of European state formation over a time span of one thousand years in a most understandable way. With a profound knowledge of history and an amazing compository skill, Tilly takes his readers by the hand and leads them." International Review of Social History, "Closely argued and thought-provoking book." Economic History Review"Tilly's thesis is presented with great lucidity... contributed to perform a service not merely for historians, but for mankind." French History"An important, provocative theory, with much originality and richly documented .... extremely well written." American Journal of Sociology"This is a good and important book. It is well written, and it presents the complex history of European state formation over a time span of one thousand years in a most understandable way. With a profound knowledge of history and an amazing compository skill, Tilly takes his readers by the hand and leads them." International Review of Social History
Series Volume Number
1
Illustrated
Yes
Table Of Content
Preface ix 1 Cities and States in World History 1 States in History 1 Available Answers 5 Logics of Capital and Coercion 16 War Drives State Formation and Transformation 20 Long Trends and Interactions 28 Prospects 33 2 European Cities and States 38 Absent Europe 38 States and Coercion 45 Cities and Capital 47 City-State Interaction 51 State Physiologies 54 Liaisons Dangereuses 58 Alternative Forms of State 62 3 How War Made States, and Vice Versa 67 A Bifurcation of Violence 67 How States Controlled Coercion 68 Wars 70 Transitions 76 Seizing, Making, or Buying Coercion 84 Paying the Debts 87 The Long, Strong Arm of Empire 91 4 States and their Citizens 96 From Wasps to Locomotives 96 Bargaining, Rights, and Collective Action 99 The Institution of Direct Rule 103 The French Revolution: From Indirect to Direct Rule 107 State Expansion, Direct Rule, and Nationalism 114 Unintended Burdens 117 Militarization = Civilianization 122 5 Lineages of the National State 127 China and Europe 127 States and Cities Reexamined 130 Coercive Trajectories 137 Capitalist Trajectories 143 Trajectories of Capitalized Coercion 151 6 The European State System 161 The Connectedness of European States 161 The Ends of Wars 165 Members of the System 170 The Creation of a State-Linked World 181 How Wars Began 183 Six Salient Questions 187 7 Soldiers and States in 1992 192 Political Misdevelopment 192 The Impact and Heritage of World War II 197 The Ascent of Military Men 203 Today's Military in Historical Perspective 205 Military Buildup 209 Soldiers in Power 211 How Did the Military Gain Power? 217 Envoi 224 References 228 Index 263
Synopsis
This is at once an account and an explanation of the evolution of European states during the present millennium. The central problem addressed by the author concerns the great variety in the kinds of state that have prevailed in Europe since AD 990. Professor Tilly shows how interactions between the wielders of power on the one hand and the manipulators of capital on the other resulted in three state formations each of which prevailed over long periods - tribute-taking empires, systems of fragmented sovereignty, and national states. he argues that to conceive European state development as a simple, unilinear process is untenable, and further that relations between the states themselves are a big factor in their formation and evolution. The final part of the book then applies these insights to the history of Third World states since 1945. For the paperback edition the author has made minor revisions throughout and provided an additional section on the rapid changes that have recently taken place in Central and Eastern Europe. "An Important, provocative theory, with much originality and richly documented...it is extremely well written, despite containing both theory and a wealth of empirical information. It caries substantial learning lightly." --Michael Mann, American Journal of Sociology "Admirable...Thoughtful and scrupulous." --Basil Davidson, Journal of International Affairs "Admirers of Charles Tillys work on European history will now have even more to admire - another genuine breakthrough. ... Straightforward, enlightened, and powerful." --Jack A. Goldstone, Contemporary Sociology, 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., A grand sweeping analysis of the formation of nationalities in Europe over a thousand years, explained in terms of the level and concentration of capital and the use of coercion. Provocative, controversial and very well written. Very distinguished author.
LC Classification Number
JN94.A2T54 1992

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