TY  - BOOK
AU  - Downing,Brian
TI  - The Military Revolution and Political Change: Origins of Democracy and Autocracy in Early Modern Europe 
SN  - 9780691222189
AV  - JN7 
U1  - 940.1 23
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Democracy
KW  - History
KW  - Renaissance
KW  - HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Amsterdam
KW  - Antwerp
KW  - Bank of England
KW  - Beliebungen
KW  - Burleigh, Michael
KW  - Cabal
KW  - Carolingian Empire
KW  - Charlemagne
KW  - Common Law
KW  - Crusades
KW  - Domesday Book
KW  - Dreidingordnungen
KW  - Earl of Leicester
KW  - Frankfurt am Main
KW  - Great Elector
KW  - Gustav Vasa
KW  - Handfesten
KW  - Hill, Christopher
KW  - Huguenots
KW  - Hussite Wars
KW  - Ivan III
KW  - Japan
KW  - Kantonsystem
KW  - Landsknechte
KW  - Legalism
KW  - Magyars
KW  - Merovingian Empire
KW  - Model Parliament
KW  - Muslim raids
KW  - Napoleonic Wars
KW  - Nobunaga
KW  - Oprichnina
KW  - Paulette
KW  - Pietism
KW  - Portugal
KW  - Poujad
KW  - Roman Empire
KW  - Schöffen
KW  - Sforza
KW  - advocati
KW  - artillery
KW  - bourgeois revolution
KW  - citizenship and military service
KW  - forced loan
KW  - fyrd
KW  - intendants
KW  - janissaries
KW  - krigsrätt
KW  - lagman
KW  - locatores
KW  - mercantilism
KW  - ministeriales
KW  - rokosz
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691222189?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691222189
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691222189/original
ER  -