ACCTG 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 74: Centralisation, Military Revolution, Anachronism
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No state possible under the middle ages. State of the estates : rule by consent, 11-14th-> gave money for a ruler for begged for this to get privileges. Crisis and answers to concrete problems, 15th-17th century. Struggles between crown" and estates; conflict between rulers. Military revolution & security dilemma rulers wrested ever more wealth from population: imposed taxes. States makes war, war makes states (charles tilly) Slow partial emergence of sovereign state result of social and political entities. Dependent on outcome (internal and external) struggles. Extend territory over which one ruled (marriage) Contingent and structural hindrances on path toward centralisation. Russian tsar: even their power was an arrangement between court and the great aristocratic landowners (tsar depend on them to work with him) to speak in the paper about: gain more central power on the other hand resistance. Why problem of absolutism ? the problem of suggestive terminology. Consistent rule did not exist, invented by liberal and democrats 19th century.
