Capital and coercion in the making of European states

• Department of History

This is the third event organised as part of the ‘Histories and Theories of the State’ series, co-sponsored by the Political History Working Group and the Diplomatic/International History Working Group. It is organised by Antonina Januszkiewicz and Jochem Rinsma

Following from our discussions during our last session on Foucault’s and Bourdieu’s theorisations of the modern state and its origins in Europe, we will now examine Charles Tilly’s Coercion, Capital, and European States, AD 990–1992. His study will provide us with a longitudinal, structural, and geopolitical account of the themes and subjects with which we have been contending. We will specifically be reading Chapters 3 and 4, i.e. 'How War Made States, and Vice Versa' and 'States and their Citizens'.

This event is organised by Antonina Januszkiewicz and Jochem C. Rinsma.

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