CONTENTSCHAPTERPAGEAuthor’s PrefaceiiiITheories of the State1The Sociological Idea of the State15IIThe Genesis of the State22(a) Political and Economic Means24(b) Peoples Without a State: Huntsmen and Grubbers27(c) Peoples Preceding the State: Herdsmen and Vikings33(d) The Genesis of the State51IIIThe Primitive Feudal State82(a) The Form of Dominion82(b) The Integration89(c) The Differentiation: Group Theories and Group Psychology92(d) The Primitive Feudal State of Higher Grade105IVThe Maritime State121(a) Traffic in Prehistoric Times122(b) Trade and the Primitive State135(c) The Genesis of the Maritime State140(d) Essence and Issue of the Maritime States155VThe Development of the Feudal State174(a) The Genesis of Landed Property174(b) The Central Power in the Primitive Feudal State182(c) The Political and Social Disintegration of the Primitive Feudal State191(d) The Ethnic Amalgamation213(e) The Developed Feudal State221VIThe Development of the Constitutional State229(a) The Emancipation of the Peasantry231(b) The Genesis of the Industrial State236(c) The Influences of Money Economy243(d) The Modern Constitutional State257VIIThe Tendency of the Development of the State274Notes293