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Feudalism, Modern State, Nation-State?

Feudalism, Modern State, Nation-State?. Modern State. Classic Definition Given by R M MacIver in The Modern State written in 1926

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Feudalism, Modern State, Nation-State?

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  1. Feudalism, Modern State, Nation-State?

  2. Modern State • Classic Definition • Given by R M MacIver in The Modern State written in1926 • Territory that forms its own domestic and foreign policy, acting through laws that are typically decided by a government and carried out, by force if necessary, by agents of that government.

  3. Goal of the Modern State Centralize authority

  4. Characteristics of the Modern State • Bureaucracy • Standing Army • Tax system • Supplies universal means of exchange for financial institutions • Makes Tax collection easy • Can pay the subjects/army • Protects citizens within boundaries and outside them. • Laws are the same in all regions.

  5. Characteristics cont’d • People have formed an association to create and preserve social order; • The community comprising the state is clearly defined in territorial terms; • The government representing the people acts according to publicly known laws; • That it has power to enforce these laws. • Centralized

  6. How is this different from its Feudal Counterpart? • Feudalism is Decentralized. • It does not have the ability to protect all of its citizens. • The Law of the King is not universal. • The boarders are not well defined. • It does not have standing army

  7. Big theme in European History • We’ve seen Europe moving this direction ever since the 1300s • The 1600s was when the modern state really solidified • It was either Constitutional Monarchies or Absolutism.

  8. Examples of Modern States • England post “Glorious Revolution” • Ruled by William and Mary with a parliament and a ‘constitution’ • France under Louis XIV – Absolutist model • Prussia under the Hohenzollerns • Russia under Peter the Great • Austria under the Hapsburgs

  9. Nation-States • All the characteristics of the modern state • One huge addition • Inhabited by a predominately homogeneous people • Population possess a substantial degree of cultural homogeneity and unity • A political unit wherein the territorial state coincides with the area settled by a certain national group or people • Group? Most strongly defined by language

  10. Who achieves this? • Obviously • Britain and France already had it • Germany and Italy achieve it • Austria? • Ottoman Empire? • Russia?

  11. Timeline • Feudalism • 800s – 1600s • Modern State • Seeds in the 1300s • Full stride by 1600s • Nation-State • 1800s • European Union seems to be drifting from this

  12. German11,987,000  (24%) Hungarian10,051,000  (20%) Slovene1,253,000  (2%) Croat, Serb5,623,000  (11%) Czech6,436,000  (13%) Slovak1,946,000  (4%) Polish4,968,000  (10%) Ruthenian (Ukrainian)3,983,000  (8%) Italian768,000  (2%, incl. LAD, FRI) Ladin, Friulan Romanian3,223,000  (6%) TOTAL50,238,000  (100%) Austrian Ethnic Groups

  13. The Balkans 1871

  14. The Balkans 1878

  15. The Balkans 1914

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