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State and Status: The Rise of the State and Aristocratic Power in Western Europe

By Samuel Clark

Book information

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Year
1995
ISBN
9780773564954, 9780773512269
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
29 MB (30008673 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
517\517
Time added
2023-08-30 15:04:29

Description

Arguing that states emerged in Western Europe as powerful political-geographical centres rather than nation-states or national states, Samuel Clark examines and compares the centres and peripheries of these two large regional zones, focusing not only on England and France but also on Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Savoy, and the Southern Low Countries. This wide-ranging and multifaceted work shows how the state shaped the aristocracy and transformed its political, economic, cultural, and status power. From a theoretical perspective, State and Status is both innovative and significant; Clark is the first to link the anti-functionalist historical sociology of Western Europe with the functionalist or neofunctionalist tradition in sociology.

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