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Title Does war make states? : investigations of Charles Tilly's historical sociology / edited by Lars Bo Kaspersen and Jeppe Strandsbjerg
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, [2017]
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 333 pages)
Contents Introduction: state formation theory : status, problems, and prospects / Lars Bo Kaspersen IFS, KU and Jeppe Strandsbjerg, DBP, CBS and Benno Teschke, University of Sussex -- Lineages -- After the Tilly-thesis : social conflict, differential state-formation and geopolitics in the construction of the European system of states / Benno Teschke, University of Sussex -- Otto Hintze, Stein Rokkan and Charles Tilly's theory of European state-building / Thomas Ertman, New York University -- Challenges -- War and state formation : amending the bellicist theory of state making / Hendrik Spruyt, Northwestern University -- Beyond the Tilly thesis : family values and state formation in Latin Christendom / Philip Gorski, Yale and Vivek Swaroop Sharma, Pitzer College -- Omissions -- The space of state formation / Jeppe Strandsbjerg, Copenhagen Business School -- The realm as a European form of rule : unpacking the warfare thesis through the Holy Roman Empire / Peter Haldén, Swedish Defence University -- War, conflict and the state reconsidered / Vivek Swaroop Sharma, Pitzer College -- Vistas -- War and state in the Middle East : reassessing Charles Tilly in a regional context / Dietrich Jung, University of Southern Denmark -- Beyond mere war : authority and legitimacy in the formation of the Latin American States / Robert H. Holden, Old Dominion University -- How Tilly's state formation paradigm is revolutionizing the study of Chinese state-making / Victoria Tin-bor Hui, University of Notre Dame
Summary "Arising from renewed engagement with Charles Tilly's canonical work on the relationship between war and state formation, this volume situates Tilly's work in a broader theoretical landscape and brings it into contemporary debates on state formation theory. Starting with Tilly's famous dictum 'war made the state, and the state made war', the book takes his claim further, examining it from a philosophical, theoretical and conceptual view, and asking whether it is applicable to non-European regions such as the Middle East, South America and China. The authors question Tilly's narrow view of the causal relationship between warfare and state-making, and use a positive yet critical approach to suggest alternative ways to explain how the state is formed. Readers will gain a comprehensive view of the most recent developments in the literature on state formation, as well as a more nuanced view of Charles Tilly's work."--Provided by publisher
This engaging volume scrutinises the causal relationship between warfare and state formation, using Charles Tilly's work as a foundation
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 296-324) and indexes
Notes Print version record
Subject Tilly, Charles -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Tilly, Charles fast
Subject War and society.
State, The.
State, The
War and society
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Kaspersen, Lars Bo, editor.
Strandsbjerg, Jeppe, 1973- editor.
ISBN 9781316595633
1316595633
9781316596050
1316596052