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Bueno de Mesquita, Bruce, 1946- author.
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Catholic Church. Treaties, etc. Holy Roman Empire, 1122 September 23.
Civilization, Western -- Christian influences.
Church and state -- Europe, Western -- History.
Exceptionalism -- Europe, Western -- History.
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The invention of power : popes, kings, and the birth of the West / Bruce Bueno de Mesquita.
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Bueno de Mesquita, Bruce, 1946- author.
New York : PublicAffairs, 2022.
Subjects
Catholic Church. Treaties, etc. Holy Roman Empire, 1122 September 23.
Civilization, Western -- Christian influences.
Church and state -- Europe, Western -- History.
Exceptionalism -- Europe, Western -- History.
ISBN:
9781541768758 (hardcover) :
1541768752 (hardcover) :
Description:
viii, 337 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Edition:
First edition.
Contents:
Exceptionalism -- Two swords, one church -- The concordat game -- Secularism surges -- The road to prosperity -- The road to Papal serfdom and liberation -- The birth of states, the birthing of representative democracy -- Today.
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"This book solves one of the great puzzles of history: why did the West become the most powerful civilization in the world? Political scientist Bruce Bueno de Mesquita explains the consolidation of power in the West through a single, little noticed event: the 1132 Concordat of Worms. Bueno de Mesquita makes a deeply researched and persuasive case that the Concordat changed the terms of competition between churches and nation-states, incentivizing economic growth and benefiting citizens over kings and popes. In the centuries since, those countries that have had similar arrangements have been consistently better off than those that did not"--
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