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New publication by Peer Vries
Posthumus Fellow emeritus Professor Peer Vries and Annelieke Vries-Baaijens recently published their book The rise of the modern state in Europe, 1450-1914.
Whereas the current world consists of states with their own, demarcated, usually contiguous territory, and recognised authority, in the Late Middle Ages legitimacy of government authority was not based on institutionalised participation by broad sections of the population and that population did not regard itself as a nation. In this book Peer and Annelieke Vries describe how, in Europe, the modern state came into being between the Late Middle Ages and the first decades of the twentieth century.
The book is published as self-managed edition and can be ordered via Amazon in paperback or Kindle format.
