POLI 344 Lecture Notes - Path Dependence
18 Feb 2013
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France: no real national assembly in france, peasants are disperse but do have certain political privileges regarding their ability to sit on royal courts, downing how does the argument about structural considerations relate to. France? government: state arises as a result of the need to fight a war results in an absolutist. 1655 series of uprisings (provincial nobility and groups of peasants) revolt is crushed: consolidation of military power into the hands of the states. Economically in france: articulation of mercantilism (john baptiste colbert, designed to justify what the monarchy is doing. 1661 state takes on the responsibility of stimulating the economy to build up the military (army and navy) Infrastructure of the state are meant to compliment this process. 1701 (war over spanish succession) french army numbers just less that. 300,000 soldiers: restructure civil law articulate a series of national laws to provide some sort of state regulation.
