ISBN10: 0691033560, ISBN13: 9780691033563, [publisher: Princeton University Press] Hardcover XII; 288 S.; Kt.; Tab.; 24 cm. Sehr gutes Exemplar. - Englisch. - The present international system, composed for the most part of sovereign, territorial states, is often viewed as the inevitable outcome of historical development. Hendrik Spruyt argues that there was nothing inevitable about the rise of the state system, however. Examining the competing institutions that arose during the decline of feudalism - among them urban leagues, independent communes, city-states, and sovereign monarchies - Spruyt disposes of the familiar claim that the superior size and war - making ability of the sovereign nation-state made it the natural successor to the feudal system. The author argues that feudalism did not give way to any single successor institution in simple linear fashion, institutional forms, such as the sovereign, territorial state in France, the Hanseatic League, and the Italian city-states, in reaction to a dramatic change in the medieval economic environment. Only in a subsequent selective phase of institutional evolution did sovereign, territorial authority prove to have significant institutional advantages over its rivals. Sovereign authority proved to be more successful in organizing domestic society and structuring external affairs. Spruyt's interdisciplinary approach not only has important implications for change in the state system in our time, but also presents ...
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New Jersey: Princeton University Press, Date: 1993. Hardcover. Very good. Very good. Some shelf wear. 1993. Princeton University Press ISBN 0691033560 9780691033563 [US]

ISBN10: 0691033560, ISBN13: 9780691033563, [publisher: Princeton University Press] Hardcover Textbook, May Have Highlights, Notes and/or Underlining, BOOK ONLYNO ACCESS CODE, NO CD, Ships with Emailed Tracking
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Princeton University Press 1994-11-20 Hardcover Good Textbook, May Have Highlights, Notes and/or Underlining, BOOK ONLYNO ACCESS CODE, NO CD, Ships with Emailed Tracking.

Princeton University Press, Date: 1994-11-20. Hardcover. Good. Textbook, May Have Highlights, Notes and/or Underlining, BOOK ONLYNO ACCESS CODE, NO CD, Ships with Emailed Tracking 1994. Princeton University Press ISBN 0691033560 9780691033563 [US]

ISBN10: 0691033560, ISBN13: 9780691033563, [publisher: Princeton University Press, New Jersey] Hardcover Very good. Some shelf wear.
[Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1993]