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COERCION, CAPITAL AND EUROPEAN STATES AD 990-1992 Charles Tilly (Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1990), 271 pages.
In his significant statement on the origins of the modern European state, Charles Tilly emphasizes the importance of war-making in creating state structures. Although not the first scholar to point out the importance of international relations to state building, Tilly's innovation is recognizing these relations were mediated by different domestic configurations of power, resulting in more than one path of state development. His three-part typology distinguishes between "coercion-intensive,"...