by Alan Harding (Author)
The State is the most powerful of political ideas but where does it come from? This broad-ranging new study traces the history of the word and the concept back to the systems of law and justice created by medieval kings and shows how legal institutions acquired political force.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 404
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 01 Mar 2002
ISBN 10: 019821958X
ISBN 13: 9780198219583