ISBN:
9781316595633
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 333 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Does war make states?
DDC:
303.66
Keywords:
Tilly, Charles Political and social views
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Tilly, Charles Political and social views
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Tilly, Charles - Political and social views
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State, The
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War and society
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War and society
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State, The
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Historical sociology
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Krieg
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Staat
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Nationenbildung
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Staatslehre
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Politische Soziologie
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Geschichte
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Forschung
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Meinungsänderung
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Erde
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Konferenzschrift 02.10.2009-03.10.2009
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Konferenzschrift 28.05.2010-29.05.2010
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Konferenzschrift
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Aufsatzsammlung
;
Konferenzschrift
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Konferenzschrift 02.10.2009-03.10.2009
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Konferenzschrift 28.05.2010-29.05.2010
;
Konferenzschrift 02.10.2009-03.10.2009
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Konferenzschrift 28.05.2010-29.05.2010
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Konferenzschrift 02.10.2009-03.10.2009
;
Konferenzschrift 28.05.2010-29.05.2010
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Historische Soziologie
;
Staat
;
Kriegführung
Abstract:
"This volume is the result of two meetings held at Copenhagen Business School (2-3 October 2009 and 28-9 May 2010) [...]." (Acknowledgments)
Abstract:
This engaging volume scrutinises the causal relationship between warfare and state formation, using Charles Tilly's work as a foundation.
Abstract:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: State Formation Theory: Status, Problems, and Prospects -- Theorising the State -- Mapping State-Formation Theories -- Locating Charles Tilly -- Structure of the Volume -- Part I Lineages -- 1 After the Tilly Thesis: Social Conflict, Differential State-formation and Geopolitics in the Construction of the European System of States -- Historical Sociology, International Relations and the Tilly Thesis -- Overcoming 'Methodological Nationalism': Encompassing Comparison -- Defining Capitalism: From Marx to Weber -- The State and the Exteriority of the Interstate System: From Weber to Waltz -- The Absence of a Social Theory of War -- Two Logics of Capital and Coercion and the Reification of Agency -- Explaining Variations: Tri-linearity and the Bracketing of the Peasantry -- Reversing the Tilly Thesis: Pre-Capitalist States Made War and War Unmade These States -- (Geo-)Political Marxism: Basic Theoretical Premises -- Conclusion -- 2 Otto Hintze, Stein Rokkan and Charles Tilly's Theory of European State-building -- Introduction -- Hintze's Early Writings -- Tilly's Two State-building Models -- Hintze's Later Writings: An Alternative to Rokkan and Tilly -- Conclusion -- Part II Challenges -- 3 War and State Formation: Amending the Bellicist Theory of State Making -- Introduction -- The Military Revolution and State Development in Europe -- The Empirical Record -- The Foundational Work of Charles Tilly -- The Impact of the Bellicist Argument on Contemporary Social Science Scholarship -- Specifying the Connections between War and State Making -- Problematizing Warfare and State Building -- State Capacity or Territorial Sovereign Authority?
Abstract:
Strong Form Selection and Optimal State Organization -- Amending the Bellicist Theory of War: Accounting for Systemic Context and Agency -- Clarification of Domestic Coalitions -- Specification of the Mechanism of Aggregation -- Conclusion -- 4 Beyond the Tilly Thesis: ''Family Values'' and State Formation in Latin Christendom -- Introduction -- The Neo-Darwinian Approach to State Consolidation: Summary and Critique -- The Neo-Malthusian Approach: Specifications and Adjudications -- Primogeniture -- Female Inheritance and Dynastic Unions -- The Fragility of the Dynastic Family -- Dynasticism and Territorial Consolidation -- The Bureaucratization of State Administration: A Neo-Weberian Account -- Patrimonialism and Military Organization in Early Modern Europe -- Conclusion: ''Family Values'' and the ''Rise of the West'' -- Part III Omissions -- 5 The Space of State Formation -- Introduction -- The Theoretical Problem of Space and State Formation -- The Territorial State -- The Nature of Space -- Cartography and Spatial History -- A Cartographic Transition -- Knowing the Territory -- Cartographic Territory -- Mapping Denmark -- Cartography and Territorial Sovereignty -- Conclusion -- 6 The Realm as a European Form of Rule: Unpacking the Warfare Thesis through the Holy Roman Empire -- Introduction -- The Warfare Thesis and the Absence of the Holy Roman Empire -- The Early Modern Holy Roman Empire as a Resilient Non-State Polity -- When the Holy Roman Empire Was Not an Anomaly -- The Similarity and Later Divergence of England, ''France'' and the HRE -- Medieval Polities Did Not Conform to Modern Definitions of Statehood -- Realm as a Form of Rule Distinct from States and Lineage Systems -- Tilly's Concept of the State Revisited
Abstract:
The Realm-State Distinction Suggests a Missing Element in Contemporary State-Building -- Conclusions and Future Directions -- 7 War, Conflict and the State Reconsidered -- War and the State -- What Is War? -- War as Politics -- Rank, Status and Violence -- Institutions and Violence -- The Types of War in Premodern Europe -- War and Society in Medieval and Early Modern Europe -- Limited War -- Institutions and Total War -- Peasants and Social Conflict -- Religious Conflict -- Constitutional Conflict -- Conquest and Territorial Domination in Medieval and Early Modern Europe -- Conclusion -- Part IV Vistas -- 8 War and State in the Middle East: Reassessing Charles Tilly in a Regional Context -- Tilly's Paradigm and Historical Sociology -- War-Making and State-Making in the Middle East -- The ''Arab Spring'' and Middle Eastern Authoritarianism: Tilly on Its Head -- Theory of Contemporary State Formation: Charles Tilly and Beyond -- 9 Beyond Mere War: Authority and Legitimacy in the Formation of the Latin American States -- Introduction -- What Is the Latin American State? -- What Can War Explain about Latin American State Making? -- When Is a State or Government ''Legitimate''? -- The Search for Authority in Latin American State Making -- 10 How Tilly's State Formation Paradigm is Revolutionizing the Study of Chinese State-making -- Tilly's Critics -- Tilly and the Case of China -- Chinese State-Making in the Classical Period -- Chinese State-Making in the Modern Period -- Chinese State-Making in the Imperial Period -- Tilly and Chinese State-Making Today -- Bibliography -- Name Index -- Subject Index
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