Readings
Conditions d'achèvement
This introductory class will address basic conceptual issues in regard of the early-modern polity, including the very notion of “the state” and the relevant terminology.
Robert Okey, Eastern Europe 1740-1985: Feudalism to Communism, London-New-York, 1986. 13-21.
Karin J. MacHardy, War, Religion and Court Patronage in Habsburg Austria. The Social and Political Dimensions of Political Interaction, 1521-1622 (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001), 21-46, 223-230 (notes)
Further readings (optional)
Michel Foucault, “Governmentality,” in The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality with two lectures by and an interview with Michel Foucault, ed. Graham Burchell, Gordon Colin, and Miller Peter. (Chicago, Ill: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2009), 87–104.