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The Military Revolution and Political Change: Origins of Democracy and Autocracy in Early Modern Europe

The Military Revolution and Political Change: Origins of Democracy and Autocracy in Early Modern Europe

Downing, Brian

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General European HistoryGeneral World HistoryRussian History

ISBN10: 0691024758
ISBN13: 9780691024752
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Published: Jan 18 1993
Pages: 308
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.79 Width: 6.12 Depth: 9.04
Language: English

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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