POLS 2950 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Thomas Hobbes, Herd Mentality, Canadian Civil Liberties Association
27 Sep 2016
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Coercion, capital and european states, cambridge, ma: blackwell. Chapter 3 ( how war made states and vice-versa ) Annotated bibliography # 1 text (maximum word count: 300 words) Tilly proposes that war creates states and states create war. This is seen through history he notes that at first wars are fought with mercenaries then this becomes too expensive as a result rulers created a standing army. This is due to the fact that war depleted money and manpower and a creation of a taxation and military conscription systems were created. Various forms of taxes were enacted such as land tax, property tax and income tax. Taxation meant that the revenue to the government would be prompt, regular and include the entire population. Likewise for the problem of manpower, military conscript was created to mobilize people, typically peasantry, throughout the territory to fill the ranks of the standing army.
