On the Medieval Origins of the Modern State

5 best books like On the Medieval Origins of the Modern State (Joseph R. Strayer): The Foundation Pit, The Supreme Court, Novus Ordo Seclorum: The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution, Communities of Violence: Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages, The Making of the Middle Ages

The Foundation Pit

Author	Andrei Platonov
ISBN	0810111454

We always believe that the bright future is just around the corner and we wait for it to come…
…on the face of each young Pioneer girl there remained a trace of the difficulty, the feebleness of early life, meagerness of body and beauty of expression. But the happiness of childhood friendship,...

The Supreme Court

Author	William H. Rehnquist
ISBN	0375708618

This new edition of Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist’s classic book offers a lively and accessible history of the Supreme Court. His engaging writing illuminates both the high and low points in the Court's history, from Chief Justice Marshall’s dominance of the Court during the early nineteenth...

Novus Ordo Seclorum: The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution

Author	Forrest McDonald
ISBN	0700603115

This is the first major interpretation of the framing of the Constitution to appear in more than two decades. Forrest McDonald, widely considered one of the foremost historians of the Constitution and of the early national period, reconstructs the intellectual world of the Founding Fathers--including...

Communities of Violence: Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages

Author

David Nirenberg

In the wake of modern genocide, we tend to think of violence against minorities as a sign of intolerance, or, even worse, a prelude to extermination. Violence in the Middle Ages, however, functioned differently, according to David Nirenberg. In this provocative book, he focuses on specific attacks...

The Making of the Middle Ages

Author	R.W. Southern
ISBN	0300002300

An acknolwedged classic of european history, R.W. Southern's "The Middle Ages" focuses on the period between 900 and 1200 A.D. His geopgraphic focus is mostly northern france, with some asides to Germany, Italy, Southern France and England. His main thesis is the idea that this period saw the emergence...