Birth of the Leviathan Building States and Regimes in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

"This densely argued book is not easy going; it commands respect rather than inspires affection....Yet this is a large and important book on a large and important subject, one firmly inscribed in a tradition of broad-based, comparative inquiry into the making of the modern state that began with Weber and Hintze at the turn of the century and has been revived in the last quarter-century by Perry Anderson, Tilly, Mann, Stein Rokkan and others. With 'Birth of Leviathan', Ertman joins them."Ertman, Thomas is the author of 'Birth of the Leviathan Building States and Regimes in Medieval and Early Modern Europe', published 1997 under ISBN 9780521484275 and ISBN 0521484278.