War, survival units, and citizenship: a neo-Eliasian processual-relational perspective
Historical sociology and research on state formation : the German tradition revisited -- Towards a theoretical framework : rereading Norbert Elias -- The decline of the Carolingian Empire and the disintegration of Europe. The figuration of feudal survival units, 800- -- He resurgence of centripetal forces : 1050- -- Centripetal forces. Two steps forward, one step back, 1300-1500 -- The European figuration of survival units 1494-1659 : from local to continental wars - the survival units in France, England, and Germany -- The "military revolution" -- The rise of civil society and a monetary economy -- Sovereignty : from universality to particularity and from fragmentation to territorialization -- France : from Stände-Staat to territorial state -- England : a territorial centralized Stände-Staat - 1500-1660 -- Germany - the competing survival units -- The struggle for recognition - winners and losers -- Some concluding remarks.