The State: Its History and Development Viewed Sociologically

by Franz Oppenheimer

Franz Oppenheimer.

Frankfort-on-Main, April 1922.

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER		PAGE
	Author’s Preface	[iii]
I	Theories of the State	[1]
	The Sociological Idea of the State	[15]
II	The Genesis of the State	[22]
	(a) Political and Economic Means	[24]
	(b) Peoples Without a State: Huntsmen and Grubbers	[27]
	(c) Peoples Preceding the State: Herdsmen and Vikings	[33]
	(d) The Genesis of the State	[51]
III	The Primitive Feudal State	[82]
	(a) The Form of Dominion	[82]
	(b) The Integration	[89]
	(c) The Differentiation: Group Theories and Group Psychology	[92]
	(d) The Primitive Feudal State of Higher Grade	[105]
IV	The Maritime State	[121]
	(a) Traffic in Prehistoric Times	[122]
	(b) Trade and the Primitive State	[135]
	(c) The Genesis of the Maritime State	[140]
	(d) Essence and Issue of the Maritime States	[155]
V	The Development of the Feudal State	[174]
	(a) The Genesis of Landed Property	[174]
	(b) The Central Power in the Primitive Feudal State	[182]
	(c) The Political and Social Disintegration of the Primitive Feudal State	[191]
	(d) The Ethnic Amalgamation	[213]
	(e) The Developed Feudal State	[221]
VI	The Development of the Constitutional State	[229]
	(a) The Emancipation of the Peasantry	[231]
	(b) The Genesis of the Industrial State	[236]
	(c) The Influences of Money Economy	[243]
	(d) The Modern Constitutional State	[257]
VII	The Tendency of the Development of the State	[274]
	Notes	[293]

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THE STATE

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