1st Edition
War, Survival Units, and Citizenship A Neo-Eliasian Processual-Relational Perspective
Introduction
Part 1: War, Survival Units, and Structures of Privileges, Right, Obligations, and Citizenship: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations
1. Historical Sociology and Research on State Formation: The German Tradition Revisited
2. Towards a Theoretical Framework: Rereading Norbert Elias
Part 2: Western Europe: From Medieval Survival Units to the Rise and Consolidation of the Stände-Staat
Introduction
3. The Decline of the Carolingian Empire and the Disintegration of Europe. The Figuration of Feudal Survival Units, 800–1050
4.The Resurgence of Centripetal Forces: 1050-1300
5. Centripetal Forces. Two Steps Forward, One Step Back, 1300–1500
Summarizing Part 2: War, Survival Units, and Citizenship. A Review of the Medieval Figurations of Survival Units, 800-1500
Part 3: France, England, and Germany: New Survival Units - New Structures of Privileges, Rights and Obligations 1500-1660
Introduction
6. The European Figuration of Survival Units 1494-1659: From Local to Continental Wars - The Survival Units in France, England, and Germany
7. The "Military Revolution"
8. The Rise of Civil Society and a Monetary Economy
9. Sovereignty: From Universality to Particularity and from Fragmentation to Territorialization
10. France: From Stände-Staat to Territorial State
11.England: A Territorial Centralized Stände-Staat - 1500-1660
12. Germany - The Competing Survival Units
13. The Struggle for Recognition - Winners and Losers
14. Some Concluding Remarks
Biography
Lars Bo Kaspersen is Professor of Political Sociology at the Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.
