State/Space
Subtitle: A Reader
Contributors: Neil Brenner (Editor); Martin Jones (Editor); Gordon MacLeod (Editor)
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited
Published: January 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780631230335
Subjects: Constitution: government & the state; International economics; Regional geography; Social Science; Politics / Current Events; Sociology; Government - Local; Political Ideologies - Nationalism; Political Science / Government / Local; General; Human Geography; Globalization; Local government; Regionalism; State, The
First sentence: The absolute states which began to develop in Western Europe during the Late Middle Ages and which were consolidated during the Renaissance laid the political and institutional foundations of the different types of representative democratic states which evolved after the last quarter of the eighteenth century.