War, Survival Units, and Citizenship: A Neo-Eliasian Processual-Relational Perspective

ISBN-13: 9780754649526 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 280 str.

Lars Bo Kaspersen

Opis

In this ground-breaking book, the author proposes a new theory of state formation based upon a rethinking of the nexus war, state, and citizenship. He seeks to move beyond explanations provided by traditional approaches by discussing alternative state-society and state theories.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part 1: War, Survival Units, and Structures of Privileges, Right, Obligations, and Citizenship: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations  1. Historical Sociology and Research on State Formation: The German Tradition Revisited  2. Towards a Theoretical Framework: Rereading Norbert Elias  Part 2: Western Europe: From Medieval Survival Units to the Rise and Consolidation of the Stände-Staat  Introduction  3. The Decline of the Carolingian Empire and the Disintegration of Europe. The Figuration of Feudal Survival Units, 800–1050  4.The Resurgence of Centripetal Forces: 1050-1300  5. Centripetal Forces. Two Steps Forward, One Step Back, 1300–1500  Summarizing Part 2: War, Survival Units, and Citizenship. A Review of the Medieval Figurations of Survival Units, 800-1500  Part 3: France, England, and Germany: New Survival Units - New Structures of Privileges, Rights and Obligations 1500-1660  Introduction  6. The European Figuration of Survival Units 1494-1659: From Local to Continental Wars - The Survival Units in France, England, and Germany  7. The "Military Revolution"  8. The Rise of Civil Society and a Monetary Economy  9. Sovereignty: From Universality to Particularity and from Fragmentation to Territorialization  10. France: From Stände-Staat to Territorial State  11.England: A Territorial Centralized Stände-Staat - 1500-1660  12. Germany - The Competing Survival Units  13. The Struggle for Recognition - Winners and Losers  14. Some Concluding Remarks

O autorze

Lars Bo Kaspersen is Professor of Political Sociology at the Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.