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Coercion, Capital, and European States, AD 990–1990

Charles Tilly · Basil Blackwell · 1990

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Charles Tilly
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2026-09-01
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ISBN 155786067X.

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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.