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This edited volume represents the latest research on intersections
of war, state formation, and political economy, i.e., how conflicts
have affected short- and long-run development of economies and the
formation (or destruction) of states and their political economies.
The contributors come from different fields of social and human
sciencies, all featuring an interdisciplinary approach to the study
of societal development. The types of big issues analyzed in this
volume include the formation of European and non-European states in
the early modern and modern period, the emergence of various forms
of states and eventually modern democracies with extensive welfare
states, the violent upheavals that influenced these processes, the
persistence of dictatorships and non-democratic forms of
government, and the arrival of total war and its consequences,
especially in the context of twentieth-century world wars. One of
the key themes is the dichotomy between democracies and
dictatorships; namely, what were the origins of their emergence and
evolution, why did some revolutions succeed and other fail, and why
did democracies, on the whole, emerge victorious in the
twentieth-century age of total wars? The contributions in this book
are written with academic and non-academic audiences in mind, and
both will find the broad themes discussed in this volume intuitive
and useful.
This edited volume represents the latest research on intersections
of war, state formation, and political economy, i.e., how conflicts
have affected short- and long-run development of economies and the
formation (or destruction) of states and their political economies.
The contributors come from different fields of social and human
sciencies, all featuring an interdisciplinary approach to the study
of societal development. The types of big issues analyzed in this
volume include the formation of European and non-European states in
the early modern and modern period, the emergence of various forms
of states and eventually modern democracies with extensive welfare
states, the violent upheavals that influenced these processes, the
persistence of dictatorships and non-democratic forms of
government, and the arrival of total war and its consequences,
especially in the context of twentieth-century world wars. One of
the key themes is the dichotomy between democracies and
dictatorships; namely, what were the origins of their emergence and
evolution, why did some revolutions succeed and other fail, and why
did democracies, on the whole, emerge victorious in the
twentieth-century age of total wars? The contributions in this book
are written with academic and non-academic audiences in mind, and
both will find the broad themes discussed in this volume intuitive
and useful.
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