The rise and decline of the state / Martin van Creveld
Imprint
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, c1999
Descript
viii, 439 p. ; 23 cm
CONTENT
Before the state: prehistory to AD 1300 -- Rise of the state: 1300 to 1648 -- State as an instrument: 1648-1789 -- State as an ideal: 1789 to 1945 -- Spread of the state: 1696 to 1975 -- Decline of the state: 1975-