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The Disciplinary Revolution1996

Calvinism and the Rise of the State in Early Modern Europe

by Philip Stephen Gorski

What explains the rapid growth of state power in early modern Europe? While most scholars have pointed to the impact of military or capitalist revolutions, Philip S. Gorski argues instead for the importance of a disciplinary revolution unleashed by the Reformation.

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