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The Military Revolution and Political Change : Origins of Democracy and Autocracy in Early Modern Europe / Brian Downing.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©1993Description: 1 online resource (308 p.) : 2 tablesContent type:
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  • 9780691222189
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 940.1 23
LOC classification:
  • JN7
  • JN7 .D69 1992eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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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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

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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