Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Tribal kingship: from the fall of Rome to the end of the Merovingians
- 3 The First Europe: the Carolingian empire
- 4 Europe divided: the post-Carolingian era
- 5 The foundation of the modern state
- 6 The classic absolutism of the Ancient Regime
- 7 The absolute state no lasting model
- 8 The bourgeois nation state
- 9 The liberal model transformed or rejected
- Epilogue
- Select bibliography
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Tribal kingship: from the fall of Rome to the end of the Merovingians
- 3 The First Europe: the Carolingian empire
- 4 Europe divided: the post-Carolingian era
- 5 The foundation of the modern state
- 6 The classic absolutism of the Ancient Regime
- 7 The absolute state no lasting model
- 8 The bourgeois nation state
- 9 The liberal model transformed or rejected
- Epilogue
- Select bibliography
- Index
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1995