State/Space
Subtitle: A Reader
Contributors: Neil Brenner (Editor); Gordon MacLeod (Editor)
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited
Published: January 1, 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780631230342
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.