Regional Modes of Production and Patterns of State Formation in Western Europe
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7614764 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Hechter (0000-0003-2845-8147, University of Washington), William Brustein (University of Washington) |
| Year | 1980 |
| Volume | 85 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1061-1094 |
| Publication date | 1980-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9602 • E-ISSN: 1537-5390 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/227125 |
| OpenAlex | W1983631625 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 54 |
| References cited | 23 |
The rise of the modern territorial state in early modern western Europe was a spatially skewed process. An endogenous model of the uneven pattern of 16th-century state formation is presented. It holds that the geographical distribution of the first modern state structures was largely determined by preexisting regional differences of social and economic organization, differences emanating from the 12th century if not earlier. The model specifies that three distinct regional modes of production existed in 12th-century western Europe. These postulated forms of social organization are designated as the sedentary pastoral, petty commodity, and feudal modes of production. The optimal preconditions for the initial formation of modern states were to be found only in those regions dominated by the feudal mode of production. The paper concludes with a discussion of some methodological and theoretical implications of these findings
Commodity · Distribution (mathematics) · Economic geography · Economic system · Economics · Economy · Feudalism · Geography · International economics · Macroeconomics · Market economy · Mode (computer interface) · Mode of production · Political science · Politics · Production (economics) · State (computer science) · State formation · Western europe · European Political History Analysis · Historical Economic and Legal Thought · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Law
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| Unique citing works | 54 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,15 |
| Citation span | 1979 - 2025 (47) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 46 |