Was it because of the war?
Rogers Brubaker: Building Europe, 15 October 1998
Birth of the Leviathan: Building States and Regimes in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
by Thomas Ertman.
Cambridge, 379 pp., £45, April 1997,0 521 48222 4 Show More
by Thomas Ertman.
Cambridge, 379 pp., £45, April 1997,
“... made war.’ But how (and when and where) did war make the state? This question is at the heart of Thomas Ertman’s challenging study. Historians and sociologists have treated Prussia as the paradigm of war-oriented state-building in Europe; yet the Prussian experience was far from typical. Elsewhere, in the Early Modern era, the planning, financing and ... ”
