Lars Kaspersen

War, Survival Units, and Citizenship (eBook, ePUB)

A Neo-Eliasian Processual-Relational Perspective

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In this ground-breaking book, the author proposes a new theory of state formation based upon a rethinking of the nexus war, state, and citizenship. He seeks to move beyond explanations provided by traditional approaches by discussing alternative state-society and state theories.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317000396
• Artikelnr.: 60033738

Autorenporträt

Lars Bo Kaspersen is Professor of Political Sociology at the Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1: War, Survival Units, and Structures of Privileges, Right, Obligations, and Citizenship: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations 1. Historical Sociology and Research on State Formation: The German Tradition Revisited 2. Towards a Theoretical Framework: Rereading Norbert Elias Part 2: Western Europe: From Medieval Survival Units to the Rise and Consolidation of the Stände-Staat Introduction 3. The Decline of the Carolingian Empire and the Disintegration of Europe. The Figuration of Feudal Survival Units, 800-1050 4.The Resurgence of Centripetal Forces: 1050-1300 5. Centripetal Forces. Two Steps Forward, One Step Back, 1300-1500 Summarizing Part 2: War, Survival Units, and Citizenship. A Review of the Medieval Figurations of Survival Units, 800-1500 Part 3: France, England, and Germany: New Survival Units - New Structures of Privileges, Rights and Obligations 1500-1660 Introduction 6. The European Figuration of Survival Units 1494-1659: From Local to Continental Wars - The Survival Units in France, England, and Germany 7. The "Military Revolution" 8. The Rise of Civil Society and a Monetary Economy 9. Sovereignty: From Universality to Particularity and from Fragmentation to Territorialization 10. France: From Stände-Staat to Territorial State 11.England: A Territorial Centralized Stände-Staat - 1500-1660 12. Germany - The Competing Survival Units 13. The Struggle for Recognition - Winners and Losers 14. Some Concluding Remarks