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"This book presents a new theory of state building in medieval and early modern Europe. Ertman argues that two factors--the organization of local government at the time of state formation and the timing of sustained geomilitary competition--can explain most of the variation in political regimes and in state infrastructures found across the continent during the second half of the 18th century."
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