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 THE STATE CHAPTER I THEORIES OF THE STATE