Richard Franklin Bensel

Founding of Modern States (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the rise of the modern state through six historical case studies of state formation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009247238
• Artikelnr.: 70913667

Autorenporträt

Richard Franklin Bensel is the Gary S. Professor of Government at Cornell University. He is the author of five books, including Yankee Leviathan (1991), The American Ballot Box in the Mid-Nineteenth Century (2004), The Political Economy of American Industrialization (2000: David Greenstone Prize, 2002), Passion and Preferences (2008), and Sectional Stress and American Political Development, 1880-1980 (1984).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Introduction
Part I. The Founding of Democratic States: 2. 'The Rights of Englishmen' and the English Constitution
3. The Will of the People and the American Founding
Section I. From the Rights of Englishmen to the Declaration of Independence
Section II. From the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution
4. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen: The French Revolution
Section I. From the Estates-General to the Execution of the King
Section II. From the Fall of the Girondins to Napoleon
Part II. The Founding of Non-Democratic States: 5. The Dictatorship of the Proletariat: The Russian Revolution
6. Blood and Soil: The Founding of the Third Reich
7. Islamic Theocracy: The Iranian Revolution
8. Conclusion.