The State: A History of Government

by Franz Oppenheimer

Franz Oppenheimer's history of government examines how states are formed, attesting that their genesis consists of conquest of one group of people over another.

A classic of sociology and political theory, The State traverses the millennia of human civilization, identifying and discussing trends common to the creation and organization of centralized government. Oppenheimer strongly disagreed with the Enlightenment idea of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 178987520X
• ISBN13: 9781789875201
• Release Date: January 1914
• Publisher: Pantianos Classics
• Length: 122 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"