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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 state development resolving in today's national state.

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Charles Tilly (May 27, 1929 – April 29, 2008) was an American sociologist, political scientist, and historian who wrote on the relationship between politics and society. He was the Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science at Columbia University.

Tilly's academic work covered multiple topics in the social sciences and influenced scholarship in disciplines outside of so...

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欧洲创造出了两个相互重叠的大的强制专家集团：军人和大地主；当他们结合在一起并得到来自国家的头衔和特权形式的认可，他们就转化为贵族，然后几个世纪以来他们成了欧洲的主要统治者。

——引自第24页

然而，日益增长的战争规模以及欧洲国家体系通过商业的、军事的和外交的交往形成的交织，最终把发动战争的优势给了那些能够把常规军队投入战场的国家；能够利用大量农村人口、资本家和相对商业化经济相结合的国家胜出（wonout）。他们制定战争规范，它们的国家形式在欧洲也成了主流的形式。最终欧洲国家都集中到这种形式：民族国家。

——引自第19页