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Arguing that social movements can be explained and understood only in a comparative historical perspective and not in terms of immediate social or political conditions, the author identifies the causes of the Land War in the evolution of social structure and collective action in the Irish countryside over the course of the nineteenth century. Orig

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This text examines the rise of the centralized state between the 16th and the 18th centuries. It aims to demonstrate how the state shaped the aristocracy in the Britain Isles and in France and its eastern periphery, and transformed its political, economic, cultural and status power.