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The Italian City-Republics (4th ed.)

Daniel Waley; Trevor Dean · Longman (Routledge) · 2010

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Daniel Waley; Trevor Dean
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2026-09-01
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ISBN 9781405859004.

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TheoryOne influential account argues that the sovereign territorial state was not inevitable: several forms of authority, including city-leagues and city-states, emerged from feudalism, and only later did sovereign territorial authority prove more successful at organising domestic society and structuring external affairs.