The making of bourgeois Europe : absolutism, revolution, and the rise of capitalism in England, France, and Germany
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Table of contents : Introduction Marxist Theories of State Formation and the Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism I. The Market-relations Model II. Production Relations and Modes of Production III. State Formation and Economic Development 2 France: From Absolutism to Bonapartism I. The Rise of the Absolutist State in France II. Across the Revolutionary Divide III. The Post-revolutionary State IV. The Second Empire and the Bonapartist State 3 Germany: Prussian Absolutism to Bismarck I. The Rise of German Absolutism II. The Consolidation of Hohenzollern Absolutism III. The Frederickan State: Professionalism and Agrarian Reform IV. The Emergence of Bureaucratic Absolutism V. German Liberalism and the Bureaucratic State VI. Bismarck and Bourgeois Revolution from Above 4 English State Formation and the Rise of Capitalism I. The Agrarian Capitalist State II. Taxation and Office-holding in the English State III. 'Old Corruption': Parasitism and Capitalism IV. The Anderson-Nairn Thesis V. Britain versus the Continent