Power Elites and State Building

by Wolfgang Reinhard (Editor)

Overview

The modern European state, defined by a continuous territory with a distinct borderline and complete external sovereignty, by the monopoly of every kind of legitimate use of force, and by a homogeneous mass of subjects each of whom has the same rights and duties, is the outcome of a thousand years of shifting political power and developing notions of the state. This major study, in the Origins of the Modern State in Europe series, sets out to examine the processes of state formation and the creation of power élites.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198205470
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	05/23/1996
Series:	The ^AOrigins of the Modern State in Europe, 13th to 18th Centuries
Pages:	332
Product dimensions:	9.53(w) x 6.40(h) x 0.97(d)

About the Author

University of Freiburg

Editorial Reviews

"Specialists and more general readers alike will therefore find in these essays new lenses affording a clearer perspective on one important aspect of the emergence of the modern European state."—American Historical Review

From the Publisher

One of a series of seven volumes, formulates generalizations regarding the social foundations, recruitment, social reproduction, and political function of power elites as they relate to the establishment of European states from the beginning of the 13th century to the end of the 18th. Draws on the extensive electronic databases now available and prosopographical methods to discuss such aspects as the impact of central institutions, dependent territories, the state as enterprise, clientism, training and professionalization, and relations between the nobility and the state. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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