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4 - From Militias to Militaries

from Part II - The Analytic Narrative

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 January 2023

Jonathan Hearn
Affiliation:
University of Edinburgh
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Chapter 4 looks specifically at the reorganisation of military power in this period, which is closely related to the declining power of aristocracies. The rise of the modern state and its monopoly of legitimate force made militaries and law enforcement bureaucratic functions of the state, rather than localised privileges of divided nobilities. The pacification of the nobilities, the subduing of their traditions of martial competition to the modern state, opens up the scope for the more civil forms of competition. The ‘wild’ can now be replaced by the ‘domesticated’.

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The Domestication of Competition
Social Evolution and Liberal Society
, pp. 109 - 130
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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