Empowering Interactions : Political Cultures and the Emergence of the State in Europe 1300-1900 ISBN: 9780754693314 Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Taylor & Francis Group Digital rights:Users: Unlimited; Printing: Limited; Download: 7 Days at a Time Subjects: History; Social Science;
This volume explores the emergence of the state in Europe between the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries. Through a series of case studies and historiographical, methodological and theoretical essays, it challenges the traditional top-down model of state development long held by historians. Instead it explores the numerous ways in which non-elite groups could influence the formation of national political institutions