The Military Revolution and Political Change : : Origins of Democracy and Autocracy in Early Modern Europe / / Brian Downing.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Downing, Brian,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]; ©1993
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (308 p.) :; 2 tables
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Tables --; Preface --; CHAPTER ONE Introduction --; CHAPTER TWO Medieval Origins of Constitutional Government --; CHAPTER THREE The Military Revolution --; CHAPTER FOUR Brandenburg-Prussia --; CHAPTER FIVE France --; CHAPTER SIX Poland --; CHAPTER SEVEN England --; CHAPTER EIGHT Sweden --; CHAPTER NINE The Dutch Republic --; CHAPTER TEN Conclusions --; Selected Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780691222189; 9783110442496; 9783110784237
• DOI: 10.1515/9780691222189?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Brian Downing.

To examine the long-run origins of democracy and dictatorship, Brian Downing focuses on the importance of medieval political configurations and of military modernization in the early modern period. He maintains that in late medieval times an array of constitutional arrangements distinguished Western Europe from other parts of the world and predisposed it toward liberal democracy. He then looks at how medieval constitutionalism was affected by the "military revolution" of the early modern era--the shift from small, decentralized feudal levies to large standing armies. Downing won the American Political Science Association's Gabriel Almond Award for the dissertation on which this book was based.