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This is a major study of the processes by which the modern European state came to exist. It is a historical analysis of power, and how over the last thousand years it has come to reside in the state and its instruments.

This study explores ways in which the concept of the individual developed in various areas of political and social life. It concerns the changing nature of individual identity, community interest and corporate groups, as they were gradually redefined by common Western European experiences.

No enquiry into the making of the modern European state can ignore the part played by law. This book explores how states availed themselves of juridical techniques in order to mould their institutions, take control over their territory, and exercise power over their subjects.

This is a major study of state finance throughout Europe from the thirteenth to the eighteenth century. It is an immensely ambitious comparative analysis of economic and fiscal development over many countries and several centuries, written by a team of leading European scholars.

In the five hundred years covered by this volume there was scarcely a year which passed without either war or some open demonstration of hostility between the many sovereign powers which governed Europe. This volume in the Origins of the Modern State in Europe series focuses on the crucial role of war in the formation of state systems.

Since the end of World War II, the process of democratization has shifted government policy away from foreign affairs, towards internal matters. This text examines the role of the city constitution, the concept of representation, and developments in rural settlements.

Representations of political power play an important role in Western art history from the late Middle Ages up to modern times. This volume by leading experts is a wide-ranging survey of significant trends in the development of political imagery.