Stability Without Statehood: Lessons from Europe's History Before the Sovereign State

By P Halden and Peter Haldén

Book Overview

Introduction: Through the Shadows of the State The Fiction of the State as the Good, Natural and the Beautiful Remedies: The Neglected Heritage of Republicanism A Long-lived Republic: The Holy Roman Empire 1648-1763 A Solitary Republic: The United States of America 1776-1865 A Shielded Republic: The European Union 1957-2010 Republican Commonwealths versus State-Building Conclusions

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349324035
• ISBN13: 9781349324033
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 223 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"