Durable Inequality - Charles Tilly. Coercion, Capital, and European States, Ad 990-1992 - Charles Tilly. This is at once an account and an explanation of the evolution of European states during the present millennium.
The central problem addressed by the author concerns the great variety in the kinds of state that have prevailed in Europe since AD 990. Professor Tilly shows how interactions between the wielders of power on the one hand and the manipulators of capital on the other resulted in three state formations each of which prevailed over long periods - tribute-taking empires, systems of fragmented sovereignty, and national states. he argues that to conceive European state development as a simple, unilinear process is untenable, and further that relations between the states themselves are a big factor in their formation and evolution. The final part of the book then applies these insights to the history of Third World states since 1945. Charles Tilly. Charles Tilly (May 27, 1929 – April 29, 2008[1]) was an American sociologist, political scientist, and historian who wrote on the relationship between politics and society.
He was professor of history, sociology, and social science at the University of Michigan from 1969-1984 and in his last position the Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science at Columbia University. Democracy - Charles Tilly. Charles Tilly Methodological Writings.