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War Making and State Making as Organized Crime, in Peter B. Evans, Dietrich Rueschemeyer and Theda Skocpol (eds), Bringing the State Back In, pp. 169–191

Charles Tilly · Cambridge University Press · 1985

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Book
Author
Charles Tilly
Identifier
DOI 10.1017/CBO9780511628283.008
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2026-09-01
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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.