The 1648 Treaty of Westphalia marked the emergence of the nation-state as the dominant political entity in Europe. This book traces the development of the natio

States make war, but war also makes states. As Publishers Weekly notes, “Porter, a political scientist at Brigham Young University, demonstrates that wars hav

This book puts the industrial revolution in a political and institutional context of state-making and the creation of modern national states, demonstrating that

What role does war play in political development? Our understanding of the rise of the nation-state is based heavily on the Western European experience of war.