Coercion Capital And European States

Author : Charles Tilly
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9781557863683
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coercion, Capital and European States written by Charles Tilly and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1993-04-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Charles Tilly
Publisher :
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Total Pages : 271 pages
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Download or read book Coercion, Capital, and European States, AD 990-1992 written by Charles Tilly and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 271 pages
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Download or read book Coercion, Capital, and European States, AD 990-1992 written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gerald Easter
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801465273
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Capital, Coercion, and Postcommunist States written by Gerald Easter and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The postcommunist transitions produced two very different types of states. The "contractual" state is associated with the countries of Eastern Europe, which moved toward democratic regimes, consensual relations with society, and clear boundaries between political power and economic wealth. The "predatory" state is associated with the successors to the USSR, which instead developed authoritarian regimes, coercive relations with society, and poorly defined boundaries between the political and economic realms. In Capital, Coercion, and Postcommunist States, Gerald M. Easter shows how the cumulative result of the many battles between state coercion and societal capital over taxation gave rise to these distinctive transition outcomes. Easter's fiscal sociology of the postcommunist state highlights the interconnected paths that led from the fiscal crisis of the old regime through the revenue bargains of transitional tax regimes to the eventual reconfiguration of state-society relations. His focused comparison of Poland and Russia exemplifies postcommunism's divergent institutional forms. The Polish case shows how conflicts over taxation influenced the emergence of a rule-of-law contractual state, social-market capitalism, and civil society. The Russian case reveals how revenue imperatives reinforced the emergence of a rule-by-law predatory state, concessions-style capitalism, and dependent society.

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Total Pages : 271 pages
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Download or read book Coercion, Capital, and European States, AD 990-1992 written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Ertman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521484275
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Birth of the Leviathan written by Thomas Ertman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-01-13 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ertman presents a new theory to explain the variation in political regimes and state infrastructures in pre-French Revolution Europe.

Author : Lars Bo Kaspersen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107141508
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Does War Make States? written by Lars Bo Kaspersen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging volume scrutinises the causal relationship between warfare and state formation, using Charles Tilly's work as a foundation.

Author : Jared Rubin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110703681X
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rulers, Religion, and Riches written by Jared Rubin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-16 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks to explain the political and religious factors leading to the economic reversal of fortunes between Europe and the Middle East.

Author : Joseph R. Strayer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400828570
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the Medieval Origins of the Modern State written by Joseph R. Strayer and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The modern state, however we conceive of it today, is based on a pattern that emerged in Europe in the period from 1100 to 1600. Inspired by a lifetime of teaching and research, On the Medieval Origins of the Modern State is a classic work on what is known about the early history of the European state. This short, clear book book explores the European state in its infancy, especially in institutional developments in the administration of justice and finance. Forewords from Charles Tilly and William Chester Jordan demonstrate the perennial importance of Joseph Strayer's book, and situate it within a contemporary context. Tilly demonstrates how Strayer’s work has set the agenda for a whole generation of historical analysts, not only in medieval history but also in the comparative study of state formation. William Chester Jordan's foreword examines the scholarly and pedagogical setting within which Strayer produced his book, and how this both enhanced its accessibility and informed its focus on peculiarly English and French accomplishments in early state formation.

Author : Martin Van Creveld
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439188890
Total Pages : 276 pages
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Download or read book Transformation of War written by Martin Van Creveld and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-11-24 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when unprecedented change in international affairs is forcing governments, citizens, and armed forces everywhere to re-assess the question of whether military solutions to political problems are possible any longer, Martin van Creveld has written an audacious searching examination of the nature of war and of its radical transformation in our own time. For 200 years, military theory and strategy have been guided by the Clausewitzian assumption that war is rational - a reflection of national interest and an extension of politics by other means. However, van Creveld argues, the overwhelming pattern of conflict in the post-1945 world no longer yields fully to rational analysis. In fact, strategic planning based on such calculations is, and will continue to be, unrelated to current realities. Small-scale military eruptions around the globe have demonstrated new forms of warfare with a different cast of characters - guerilla armies, terrorists, and bandits - pursuing diverse goals by violent means with the most primitive to the most sophisticated weapons. Although these warriors and their tactics testify to the end of conventional war as we've known it, the public and the military in the developed world continue to contemplate organized violence as conflict between the super powers. At this moment, armed conflicts of the type van Creveld describes are occurring throughout the world. From Lebanon to Cambodia, from Sri Lanka and the Philippines to El Salvador, the Persian Gulf, and the strife-torn nations of Eastern Europe, violent confrontations confirm a new model of warfare in which tribal, ethnic, and religious factions do battle without high-tech weapons or state-supported armies and resources. This low-intensity conflict challenges existing distinctions between civilian and solder, individual crime and organized violence, terrorism and war. In the present global atmosphere, practices that for three centuries have been considered uncivilized, such as capturing civilians or even entire communities for ransom, have begun to reappear. Pursuing bold and provocative paths of inquiry, van Creveld posits the inadequacies of our most basic ideas as to who fights wars and why and broaches the inevitability of man's need to "play" at war. In turn brilliant and infuriating, this challenge to our thinking and planning current and future military encounters is one of the most important books on war we are likely to read in our lifetime.