Practice question · Put in order
Arrange these developments in the history of the state in chronological order.
- Bodin defines sovereignty, 1576
- Weber's Politics as a Vocation, 1919
- The Montevideo Convention, 1933
- The Peace of Westphalia, 1648
- Anderson's Imagined Communities, 1983
Hints
- The two early-modern items come first.
- Weber precedes Montevideo by fourteen years.
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- Bodin defines sovereignty, 1576
- The Peace of Westphalia, 1648
- Weber's Politics as a Vocation, 1919
- The Montevideo Convention, 1933
- Anderson's Imagined Communities, 1983
Why
The three-century gap between Bodin and Weber is worth noticing: the concept of sovereignty is early modern, and the definition of the state that the discipline now uses is barely a century old. The "Westphalian system" is itself largely a nineteenth-century construction read backwards onto 1648.
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