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War and the State in Early Modern Europe: Widening the Debate

David Grummitt

Hans Cools

While the debate on the role of war in state development in early modern Europe has ranged widely, the participants have not answered its most fundamental question to the satisfaction of most historians. The difficulty has been how to assess whether war was more important than other factors as a driver of state formation. In practice it is more fruitful to study the role of war within a multi-causal model, but to do this the interaction between war and other factors such as judicial, religious, ideological, and social change must be studied, preferably in detail but in comparative context.

War in History, Vol. 15, No. 4, 371-388 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/0968344508095446


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