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Was it because of the war?

Rogers Brubaker

  • Birth of the Leviathan: Building States and Regimes in Medieval and Early Modern Europe by Thomas Ertman

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Rogers Brubaker’s books include Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany and Nationalism Revisited. He teaches at UCLA.

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