Book contents
- The Domestication of Competition
- The Domestication of Competition
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I The Ideas
- Part II The Analytic Narrative
- 3 The Decline of Traditional Authority and the Rise of Corporate Actors
- 4 From Militias to Militaries
- 5 From Adventurers to Companies
- 6 From Factions to Parties
- 7 From Churches to Universities
- Part III The Wider View
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
4 - From Militias to Militaries
from Part II - The Analytic Narrative
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 January 2023
Book contents
- The Domestication of Competition
- The Domestication of Competition
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I The Ideas
- Part II The Analytic Narrative
- 3 The Decline of Traditional Authority and the Rise of Corporate Actors
- 4 From Militias to Militaries
- 5 From Adventurers to Companies
- 6 From Factions to Parties
- 7 From Churches to Universities
- Part III The Wider View
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
Summary
Chapter 4 looks specifically at the reorganisation of military power in this period, which is closely related to the declining power of aristocracies. The rise of the modern state and its monopoly of legitimate force made militaries and law enforcement bureaucratic functions of the state, rather than localised privileges of divided nobilities. The pacification of the nobilities, the subduing of their traditions of martial competition to the modern state, opens up the scope for the more civil forms of competition. The ‘wild’ can now be replaced by the ‘domesticated’.
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- The Domestication of CompetitionSocial Evolution and Liberal Society, pp. 109 - 130Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023