Thomas Ertman: 1 book
Birth of the Leviathan
Building States and Regimes in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 1997
For many years scholars have sought to explain why the European states which emerged in the period before the French Revolution developed along such different lines. Why did some become absolutist and others constitutionalist? What enabled some to develop bureaucratic administrative systems, while...
