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EI Weekly Listen — War and statehood by Philip Bobbitt

Engelsberg Ideas Podcasts

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The History of the Modern State

Machiavelli recognised what Florence and the other vulnerable cities needed was a state. This new form of political organisation was recognised by the Treaty of Augsburg in 1555. The Dutch, British, French and Prussian states were preeminent for over a century. Imperial states exalted their own nationalism but crushed it wherever they conquered. National groups began to push back against the empires that held them subject.

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