The Rise of the Modern Leviathan: State Functions and State Features
Summary
This chapter contains sections titled:
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Changing Semantics and Critical Discourses: Defining the State in a Period of Transformation and Crisis
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States and Modernization: State Traditions and Structural Changes since the Eighteenth Century
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Men and Money: European Wars as Causes and Catalysts of State Expansion
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Professionalization and Centralization: The Emergence of a Functional State Elite
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State Models and Variants of State Activities in the Nineteenth Century: Four European Cases
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New Functions, New Conflicts: Communication and Infrastructure, Education and Social Welfare, and the Emergence of the Interventionist State before 1914
