Latterly a model of European state formation has been constructed which sets Henry's kingship less comfortably alongside those of Louis and Ferdinand. This should lead us not to abandon, but to reshape the attempt to set Henry in his European context....
THE MITTANI STATE: THE FORMATION OF THE KINGDOM OF MITTANI61Stefano de Martino*The Mittani State: The Formation of the Kingdom of MittaniDuring the 15th century BC and the first half of the 14th century BC Mittani was a powerfulkingdom; the state ruled over a large area, from the Upper...
It didn’t have to be this way. As noted above, China financed its industrial take-off by creating public credit to finance tangible capital investment and real-estate construct buildings not already in place. The idea was to create new capital formation and construct new buildings,...
A central idea concerning the Leviathan 2.0 is that events such as theMeiji Restoration, German and Italian unification, and the US Civil War ledto the formation of a new kind of territoriality in which, to use two very use-ful terms deployed by Maier, there was a convergence between ...
Greek myths contain iconographic material relating to the legitimacy, power and succession problems of early kingship. They may even represent the relics of kingly liturgies recited at coronations and New Year festivals. This essay analyses Hesiod's Pandora, her presentation and regalia, as an icon...
Thomas Ertman, ‘The Sinews of Power and European State-Building Theory’ in Lawrence Stone (ed.), An Imperial State at War: Britain from 1689 to 1815 (London, 1994), pp. 33–9. Google Scholar Brian M. Downing, The Military Revolution and Political Change: Origins of Democracy and Auto...
State formationSocial complexityNeo-evolutionary theoryPractice theoryKingshipPredynastic EgyptWhen the archaeology of Predynastic Egypt was last appraised in this journal, Savage (2001a, p. 101) expressed optimism that "a consensus appears to be developing that stresses the gradual development of complex...
Nevertheless, they imply an ultramundane, salvific per-spective, while at the same time having become one of the main fields of expression for medieval kingship. This is especially true in the case of those do-nations in which the donors can patently only be identified with monarchs, due to ...
this study looks at the contrasting polities in fourth millennium BC Egypt and Nubia from the perspective of the political economy and the strategies to power proposed by the dual-processual theory, which also helps elucidate processes of state formation and the type of early state that developed ...