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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
R C van Caenegem |
ISBN: | 052147115X 9780521471152 0521476933 9780521476935 |
OCLC Number: | 431829785 |
Description: | 338 p. 24 cm |
Contents: | Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Tribal kingship: from the fall of Rome to the end of the Merovingians; 3. The first Europe: the Carolingian empire; 4. Europe divided: the post-Carolingian era; 5. The foundation of the modern state; 6. The classic absolutism of the Ancient Regime; 7. The absolute state: no lasting model; 8. The bourgeois nation state; 9. The liberal model transformed or rejected; Epilogue; Select bibliography; Index. |
Responsibility: | R.C. van Caenegem. |
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"...this well-written work provides a grand perspective and judicious abalysis of issues for its intended audience of undergraduates and law students, those 'who want to place their own constitution, which is part of their curriculum, in an international and historical perspective, but who lack the time and the languages to read the relevant national legal histories." Albert J. Schmidt, Law and History Review Read more...

