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The Military Revolution and Political Change
Origins of Democracy and Autocracy in Early Modern Europe
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The Military Revolution and Political Change
Origins of Democracy and Autocracy in Early Modern Europe
About this book
To examine the long-run origins of democracy and dictatorship, Brian Downing focuses on the importance of medieval political configurations and of military modernization in the early modern period. He maintains that in late medieval times an array of constitutional arrangements distinguished Western Europe from other parts of the world and predisposed it toward liberal democracy. He then looks at how medieval constitutionalism was affected by the "military revolution" of the early modern era--the shift from small, decentralized feudal levies to large standing armies. Downing won the American Political Science Association's Gabriel Almond Award for the dissertation on which this book was based.
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Medieval
Constitutionalism
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economic
growth,
onerous
responsibilities
shifted
onto
the
state.
The
in-
tensity
of
war
and
the
availability
of
outside
resources
determined
if
the
constitutional
state
could
endure
and
serve
as
a
basis
for
liberal
democ-
racy,
or
if,
like
too
many
other
medieval
edifices,
it
would
be
destroyed
and
replaced
by
a
less
decorous
though
eminently
functional
construc-
tion.
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half-title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Tables
- Preface
- Chapter One: Introduction
- Chapter Two: Medieval Origins of Constitutional Government
- Chapter Three: The Military Revolution
- Chapter Four: Brandenburg-Prussia
- Chapter Five: France
- Chapter Six: Poland
- Chapter Seven: England
- Chapter Eight: Sweden
- Chapter Nine: The Dutch Republic
- Chapter Ten: Conclusions
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
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