From that point on, the extraordinary system of spies and informers which has played an important part in the political work of the French state into….

With calm, knowledgeable precision, Daniel Ziblatt wades into the adjacent swamps of federalism and nineteenth-century European history, emerging wit….

Going to war accelerated the move from indirect to direct rule. Almost any state that makes war finds that it cannot pay for the effort from its accu….

Almost all war making states borrow extensively, raise taxes, and seize the means of combat - including men - from reluctant citizens..