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Societal Breakdown and the Rise of the Early Modern State in Europe: Memory of the Future

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This book explores the idea that the strong despotic state is the only way to maintain basic order.

Shlapentokh looks at early modern France to demonstrate that asocial behavior is not a marginal phenomenon, but rather a process that defined society and one that is an important factor in analyzing social changes.

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Palgrave Macmillan
0230610420 / 9780230610422
eBook (Adobe Pdf)
22/01/2008
England
English
225 pages
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