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The Formation of National States in Western Europe

Charles Tilly · Princeton University Press · 1975

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Charles Tilly
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2026-09-01
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Edited volume; Tilly's introductory and concluding chapters. Tilly's chapter 'Reflections on the History of European State-Making' begins on p. 3; the phrase 'War made the state, and the state made war' is at p. 42 (as cited by Rosa Brooks, 'The Trickle-Down War', Yale Law & Policy Review). ISBN 0691052190.

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TheoryTilly argued that early modern European rulers built states as a by-product of war making, state making, protection and extraction, likening them to racketeers selling protection, and that resistance to extraction produced bargains with subject populations.