Covering a period of some 400 to 500 years up to the last decades of the nineteenth century, the author takes a wide range of examples from those societies whose levels of political organisation warrant the term 'states'. The arrangements for the exercise of power within these varied from states where one man or an oligarchy made decisions about war and peace to states where power was diffused between members of the community.
North America: University of Wisconsin Press
- ISBN10 0852550278
- ISBN13 9780852550274
- Publish Date 14 September 1989 (first published 11 November 1976)
- Publish Status Inactive
- Out of Print 23 March 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint James Currey
- Edition 2nd Revised edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 176
- Language English