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War and State Formation in Ancient China and Early Modern Europe

Victoria Tin-bor Hui · Cambridge University Press · 2005

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Book
Author
Victoria Tin-bor Hui
Identifier
DOI 10.1017/CBO9780511614545
Accessed
2026-09-01
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ISBN 9780521819725.

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TheoryScholars of other regions argue that the bellicist model travels poorly: Herbst argued that European-derived theories fail to explain state creation in Africa, where power and space interacted very differently, and Centeno found that in relatively peaceful Latin America war destroyed institutions and confirmed internal divisions rather than building nation-states.