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

Joseph L Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science Charles Tilly
Wiley
9781557863683
1-55786-368-7

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.

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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.