Birth of the Leviathan: Building States and Regimes in Medieval and Early Modern EuropeCambridge University Press, 13 janv. 1997 - 363 pages For many years scholars have sought to explain why the European states which emerged in the period before the French Revolution developed along such different lines. Why did some states become absolutist and others constitutionalist? What enabled some to develop bureaucratic administrative systems, while others remained dependent upon patrimonial practices?This book presents a new theory of state-building in medieval and early modern Europe. Ertman argues that two factors -- local government and sustained geo-military competition -- can explain most of the variation found across the continent. |
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
FOUR TYPES | 6 |
COMPETING EXPLANATIONS | 10 |
THE ARGUMENT | 19 |
THE ORIGINS OF PATRIMONIAL ABSOLUTISM IN LATIN EUROPE | 35 |
THE LATE ROMAN EMPIRE AND EARLY STATE FORMATION IN VISIGOTH SPAIN LOMBARD ITALY AND MEROVINGIAN AND CARO... | 37 |
ECONOMIC AND ECCLESIASTICAL RENEWAL AND THE REBIRTH OF ROYAL POWER IN LATIN EUROPE | 48 |
EARLY GEOPOLITICAL COMPETITION REPRESENTATIVE ASSEMBLIES AND THE CREATION OF SYSTEMS OF NATIONAL TAXATION | 59 |
THE RESTORATION AND THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION IN GOVERNMENT 16601688 | 187 |
THE CONSOLIDATION OF THE NEW BRITISH STATE AFTER 1689 | 208 |
CONCLUSION | 221 |
BUREAUCRATIC ABSOLUTISM IN GERMANY | 224 |
FAILED DARK AGE STATEBUILDING EMPIRE AND THE EMERGENCE OF TERRITORIAL STATES IN GERMANY 511c 1450 | 226 |
REPRESENTATIVE INSTITUTIONS GEOPOLITICAL COMPETITION AND THE CONSOLIDATION OF BUREAUCRATIC ABSOLUTISM IN T... | 237 |
THE CASE OF BRANDENBURGPRUSSIA | 245 |
CONCLUSION | 262 |
THE BEGINNINGS OF PATRIMONIAL ABSOLUTISM | 74 |
CONCLUSION | 88 |
THE TRIUMPH OF PATRIMONIAL ABSOLUTISM AND THE FAILURE OF REFORM IN LATIN EUROPE c 15001789 | 90 |
WAR AND THE TRIUMPH OF PATRIMONIAL ABSOLUTISM IN FRANCE 14941659 | 91 |
PATRIMONIAL ABSOLUTISM IN IBERIA AND ITALY 14921789 | 110 |
THE REFORM OF PATRIMONIAL ABSOLUTISM UNDER COLBERT AND LOUIS XIV 16601714 | 125 |
GEOPOLITICAL PRESSURES THE FAILURE OF REFORM AND THE END OF PATRIMONIAL ABSOLUTISM 17151791 | 139 |
CONCLUSION | 154 |
BUREAUCRATIC CONSTITUTIONALISM IN BRITAIN | 156 |
UNENCUMBERED STATE FORMATION EARLY GEOPOLITICAL PRESSURE AND A PRECOCIOUS ATTEMPT AT SHARED RULE c 4001453 | 158 |
DEEPENING PATRIMONIALISM AND ITS TEMPORARY DEMISE 14531659 | 178 |
THE TRIUMPH OF PATRIMONIAL CONSTITUTIONALISM IN HUNGARY AND POLAND AND ITS PREMATURE DEMISE IN SCANDINAVIA | 264 |
UNENCUMBERED STATE FORMATION AND THE CONSOLIDATION OF LOCAL ELITE SELFGOVERNMENT IN HUNGARY AND POLAN... | 267 |
THE ADVENT OF SUSTAINED GEOPOLITICAL COMPETITION AND THE TRIUMPH OF PATRIMONIAL CONSTITUTIONALISM IN HUNG... | 285 |
INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL THREATS TO PATRIMONIAL CONSTITUTIONALISM IN HUNGARY AND POLAND 16481795 | 300 |
ABORTIVE PATRIMONIAL CONSTITUTIONALISM IN SCANDINAVIA | 305 |
CONCLUSION | 314 |
CONCLUSION | 317 |
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