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Enterprise and Society Advance Access originally published online on July 10, 2006
Enterprise and Society 2006 7(3):606-608; doi:10.1093/es/khl025
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Published by Oxford University Press 2006.

Julia Adams. The Familial State: Ruling Families and Merchant Capitalism in Early Modern Europe. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005. xi + 235 pp. ISBN 0-8014-3308-8, $35.00 (paper).

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This book is an ambitious attempt to reinterpret state creation in Early Modern Europe, from a theoretical point of view and also because of the choice of the case study that centers the attention of the empirical research on the Dutch state.

To begin with theory, Julia Adams goes back to Weberian theories about the ideal type of patriarchal patrimonialism. Patrimonial practices were traditional, but Max Weber stated that they could set in motion fundamental . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Paloma Fernández Pérez

Universitat de Barcelona


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