The Noble Enterprise of State Building

Reconsidering the Rise and Fall of the Modern State in Prussia and Poland

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ID6247359
AutoresNicholas C Wheeler (autor correspondente)
Ano2011
Volume44
Fascículo1
Páginas21-38
Data de publicação2011-10-01
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoComparative Politics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0010-4159 • E-ISSN: 2151-6227
EditoraComparative Politics CUNY (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5129/001041510x13815229366480
OpenAlexW2328605477
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10

Analysis of the state-building process in modern Europe rests upon the traditional assumption that monarchs were the central driving force behind the consolidation of power in the form of a centralized state. However, an alternative state-society account challenges the supposition that monarchs were always the centralizing group in early modern society. The formation of the modern European state was ultimately shaped by the state-building strategies adopted by societal elites who possessed certain forms of social power. This alternative understanding of the state-building process helps explain the puzzling developments surrounding the successful rise of Brandenburg-Prussia and the collapse of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth during the early modern period

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