Before the state : systemic political change in the west from the Greeks to the French Revolution /...
Before the state : systemic political change in the west from the Greeks to the French Revolution /...
Before the state : systemic political change in the west from the Greeks to the French Revolution / Andreas Osiander.
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Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2007.
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N321.009/ 1
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Language
English
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Physical content
xxi, 564 p. ; 26 cm.
Contents
1. Basics -- 1.1. History as popular myth in IR and elsewhere -- 1.2. The 'state' a timeless marker of civilization? 'State' and language -- 1.3. 'State' and discourse of eternity in historiography and social science. The notion of 'bounded entities' -- 1.4. The method of this study -- 1.5. Key conc...
4.3. Crown and 'state' in the ancien regime -- 4.4. The reality of late ancien regime society -- 5. Conclusion.
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Publisher
Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2007.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
c2007.
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Summary
"Treating western civilisation as a single political system, the book charts systemic structural change from the origins of western civilisation in the pre-Christian Greek world to about 1800, when the onset of industrialisation began to create the conditions in which the state as we know it could function. It explains structural change in terms of...
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Before the state : systemic political change in the west from the Greeks to the French Revolution / Andreas Osiander.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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c2007.
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N321.009/ 1
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74VK33qVAAzX
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VK33qVAAzX
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ISBN
9780198294511 (hbk.) :
0198294514 (hbk.) :
DDC
321.009
MMS ID
991023766259702626
