American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 85, No. 5 (Mar., 1980), pp. 1061-1094 (34 pages) The rise of the modern territorial state in early modern western Europe was a spatially skewed process. An ...

The spread of the Slavs stands as one of the most formative yet least understood events in European history. Starting in the ...

In medieval Europe, a rivalry between two assertive cultures — Christians and Jews, who both considered themselves “God’s Chosen People” — gave rise to modern antisemitism, argues Yale’s Ivan G.