Contents
Preface page vii
1 Before the state: prehistory to AD 1300 1
Tribes without rulers 2
Tribes with rulers (chiefdoms) 10
City-states 20
Empires, strong and weak 35
Limits of stateless societies 52
2 The rise of the state: 1300 to 1648 59
The struggle against the church 62
The struggle against the Empire 75
The struggle against the nobility 87
The struggle against the towns 104
The monarchs’ triumph 118
3 The state as an instrument: 1648 to 1789 126
Building the bureaucracy 128
Creating the infrastructure 143
Monopolizing violence 155
The growth of political theory 170
Inside the Leviathan 184
4 The state as an ideal: 1789 to 1945 189
The Great Transformation 191
Disciplining the people 205
Conquering money 224
The road to total war 242
The apotheosis of the state 258
5 The spread of the state: 1696 to 1975 263
Toward Eastern Europe 264
The Anglo-Saxon experience 281
The Latin American experiment 298
Frustration in Asia and Africa 315
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3326 The decline of the state: 1975- 336
The waning of major war 337
The retreat of welfare 354
Technology goes international 377
The threat to internal order 394
The withdrawal of faith 408
Conclusions: beyond the state 415
Index 422
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