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Coercion, Capital, and European States, AD 990–1992

Charles Tilly

How did the interplay of capital and coercion shape the European states that still organize our world?

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Author
Charles Tilly

Why read it

  • You will weigh the claim that coercion works, and that this is why wars kept happening and states kept growing
  • You will see why European states followed such different paths yet mostly ended up concentrating capital and coercion
  • You will learn how rulers solved the problem of paying for wars without ruining the sources of their future money

Who it is for

  • Political science student studying how states began
  • Reader asking why wars keep shaping governments
  • History fan curious how taxes, armies and cities connect

Contents

  1. Preface
  2. 1. Cities and States in World History
  3. STATES IN HISTORY
  4. AVAILABLE ANSWERS
  5. LOGICS OF CAPITAL AND COERCION
  6. WAR DRIVES STATE FORMATION AND TRANSFORMATION
  7. LONG TRENDS AND INTERACTIONS
  8. PROSPECTS
  9. 2. European Cities and States
  10. Absent Europe
  11. States and Coercion
  12. Cities and Capital
  13. City-State Interaction
  14. State Physiologies
  15. Liaisons Dangereuses
  16. Alternative Forms of State
  17. 3. How War Made States, and Vice Versa
  18. A Bifurcation of Violence
  19. How States Controlled Coercion
  20. Wars
  21. Transitions
  22. Seizing, Making, or Buying Coercion
  23. Paying the Debts
  24. The Long, Strong Arm of Empire
  25. 4. States and their Citizens
  26. 5. Lineages of the National State
  27. 6. The European State System
  28. 7. Soldiers and States in 1992

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