Ertman presents a new theory to explain the variation in political regimes and state infrastructures in pre-French Revolution Europe.

For many years scholars have sought to explain why the European states which emerged in the period before the French Revolution developed along such different l

Written during a moment in English history when the political and social structures were in flux and open to interpretation, Leviathan played an essential role

Leviathan and the Air-Pump examines the conflicts over the value and propriety of experimental methods between two major seventeenth-century thinkers: Thomas Ho