Coercion, Capital and European States
| Author | : Charles Tilly |
| Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 1993-04-08 |
| ISBN-10 | : 1557863687 |
| ISBN-13 | : 9781557863683 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (683 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Coercion, Capital and European States by : Charles Tilly
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.