In this pathbreaking work, now available in paperback, Charles Tilly challenges all previous formulations of state development in Europe. Specifically, Tilly charges that most available explanations fail because they do not account for the great variety of kinds of states which were viable at different stages of European history, and because they assume a unilinear path of stat...(展开全部)

In this pathbreaking work, now available in paperback, Charles Tilly challenges all previous formulations of state development in Europe. Specifically, Tilly charges that most available explanations fail because they do not account for the great variety of kinds of states which were viable at different stages of European history, and because they assume a unilinear path of stat...(展开全部)

查尔斯·蒂利（Charles　Tilly）是兴趣广泛的美国社会学家，他是研究欧洲政治变化的权威，现为哥伦比亚大学特聘的约瑟夫·L·伯滕威泽（The、Joseph L·BLittenwleser）社会科学教授。他1958年获得哈佛大学博士学位。蒂利的研究主要集中在他自己所说的终生的三大关怀上，它们是集体行为的历史和动力、城市化的过程和民族国家的形成，他特别关注大规模的社会变化及其和政治的关系，特别是发生在1500年以来的欧洲的社会变化。他对欧洲历史考察入微，对许多政治现象都有自己的真知灼见。他著述丰硕．也是政治学领域著名的学者。

The author examines how states canand haveused international currency relationships and arrangements as instruments of coercive power for the advancement of state security. He uncovers how monetary power is affected by different monetary regimes, the sources of its success and failure, and the factors that lead states to turn to its use.

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The Coercion Thesis has been a subject of longstanding debate, but legal positivist scholarship over the last several decades has concluded that coercion is not necessary for law. Coercion and the Nature of Law is concerned with reviving the Coercion Thesis, presenting a strong case for the inherently coercive nature of legal regulation, and arguing that anything properly chara...(展开全部)

"States of Credit" provides the first comprehensive look at the joint development of representative assemblies and public borrowing in Europe during the medieval and early modern eras. In this pioneering book, David Stasavage argues that unique advances in political representation allowed certain European states to gain early and advantageous access to credit, but the emergence...(展开全部)

States of Credit provides the first comprehensive look at the joint development of representative assemblies and public borrowing in Europe during the medieval and early modern eras. In this pioneering book, David Stasavage argues that unique advances in political representation allowed certain European states to gain early and advantageous access to credit, but the emergence o...(展开全部)