The development of the modern state : a sociological introduction /

Poggi, Gianfranco.

The development of the modern state : a sociological introduction / Gianfranco Poggi - London, United Kingdom : Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., c1978 - xiii, 169 pages ; 21 cm.

Includes index.

I. Introduction: the business of rule -- II. The feudal system of rule -- III. The standestaat -- IV. The absolutist system of rule -- V. The nineteenth-century constitutional state -- VI. State and society under liberalism and after.

Sociologists in western countries have of late become more and more concerned with various problems relating centrally to the notion of the state.

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