Overview

In the five hundred years covered by this volume there was scarcely a year which passed without either war or some open demonstration of hostility between the many sovereign powers which governed Europe. States and peoples lived under the shadow of war, were ceaselessly prompted to consider the possibility of war, had to find ways of dealing with the consequences of war. This volume in the Origins of the Modern State in Europe series focuses on the crucial role of war in the formation of state systems. It starts from the assumption that interstate rivalries and conflicts were at the heart not only of the demarcation of territories, but also of the ever-growing need to mobilize resources for warfare. Institutionalization was consequently highly dependent on such competition. It was for military reasons, and with military aims, that the state secured control of time and space, both at sea and on land.The Origins of the Modern State in Europe series arises from an important international research programme sponsored by the European Science Foundation. The aim of the series, which comprises seven volumes, is to bring together specialists from different countries, who reinterpret from a comparative European perspective different aspects of the formation of the state over the long period from the beginning of the thirteenth to the end of the eighteenth century. One of the main achievements of the research programme has been to overcome the long-established historiographical tendency to regard states mainly from the viewpoint of their twentieth-century borders.

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Author:   Philippe Contamine (Professor of History, Professor of History, La Sorbonne, Paris)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Volume:   Vol 5
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 24.20cm
Weight:   0.666kg
ISBN:  

9780198202141

ISBN 10:   0198202148
Pages:   360
Publication Date:   23 November 2000
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Philippe Contamine: Introduction 2: Maria Nadia Covini: Political and Military Bonds in the Italian State System, Thirteenth to Sixteenth Centuries 3: Luis Ribot Garcia: Types of Armies: Early Modern Spain 4: Jaap R. Bruijn: States and their Navies from the Late Sixteenth to the End of the Eighteenth Centuries 5: Jean Meyer: States, Roads, Armies, and the Organization of Peace 6: Jan Lindegren: Men, Money, and Means 7: Philippe Contamine: The Growth of State Control. Practices of War 1300-1800: Ransom and Booty 8: Bernhard R. Kroener: the Modern State and Military Society in the Eighteenth Century 9: Norman Housley: Pro deo et patria mori: Sanctified Patriotism in Europe 10: Francoise Autrand: The Peacemakers and the State: Pontifical Diplomacy and the Anglo-French Conflict in the Fourteenth Century 11: Heinz Duchhardt: War and International Law in Europe, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries

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