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- Bruno Aguilera-Barchet
Legal History, Rey Juan Carlos University, Madrid, Spain
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- Provides a much-needed basic text for both students and academics in jurisprudence, legal theory and politics
- Accessible and interesting coverage of the history of western law and government
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Front Matter
Pages i-xxvFrom the City State to the Roman Empire
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Pages 7-7From Territorial Power to Spiritual Rule: Christianity’s Political Dimension
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Pages 65-89
The Origins of the European “Nations”
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Pages 91-91
The Origins of the “European States”
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Pages 175-175From Kings to Monarchs: The Resurgence of Public Power in Late Medieval Europe
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Pages 177-210The Apogee of Royal Power: Absolute Monarchy (The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries)
- Bruno Aguilera-Barchet
Pages 211-256From the Conservative King to the Reformist Monarch: The Stage of Enlightened Absolutism (Eighteenth Century)
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Pages 257-286From Absolute to Limited Monarchy: The British Origins of Parliamentary Government
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Pages 287-318
The Rise of the Nation-State
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Pages 319-319From Monarchy to Representative Government: The American “Revolution”
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Pages 321-369From Absolute Monarchy to Democratic Absolutism: The French Revolution
- Bruno Aguilera-Barchet
Pages 371-413The Return of the Monarchical Principle (I). The Origins of North American Presidentialism
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Pages 415-448The Return of the Monarchical Principle (II). The French State. From Imperial Bonapartism to Republican Presidentialism
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Pages 449-487
Authors and Affiliations
Legal History, Rey Juan Carlos University, Madrid, Spain
Bruno Aguilera-Barchet
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title:A History of Western Public Law
Book Subtitle:Between Nation and State
Authors:Bruno Aguilera-Barchet
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11803-1
Publisher:Springer Cham
eBook Packages:Humanities, Social Sciences and Law,Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information:Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN:978-3-319-11802-4Published: 15 January 2015
Softcover ISBN:978-3-319-35342-5Published: 24 September 2016
eBook ISBN:978-3-319-11803-1Published: 31 December 2014
Edition Number:1
Number of Pages:XXV, 775
Topics:Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History,European Law,History, general,Constitutional Law,Philosophy of Law,Political Theory