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发帖数: 588 | 1 INTRODUCTION
The subject of this book is the early modern state -- what it was and how it
came to be. A great deal has been written on this topic over the last twenty
years; indeed, the study of state-formation has become one of the core
concerns not only of historical sociology, but also of comparative politics
and social history. Virtually all of the work in this area has sought to
explain state-building in terms of two processes: the “military revolution”
of the Sixteenth Century or the “bou |
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