Sponsored by the Committee on Comparative Politics, Social Science Research Council. Includes index.

Reflections on the history of European state-making /by Charles Tilly -- State- and nation-building in Europe: the role of the military / by Samuel E. Finer -- Financial policy and economic infrastructure of modern states and nations / by Gabriel Ardant -- Taxation, sociopolitical structure, and state-building: Great Britain and Bradenburg-Prussia / by Rudolf Braun -- The police and political development in Europe / by David H. Bayley -- Food supply and public order in modern Europe / by Charles Tilly -- The recruitment and training of administrative and technical personnel / by Wolfram Fischer and Peter Lundgreen -- Dimensions of state formation and nation-building: a possible paradigm for research on variations within Europe / by Stein Rokkan -- Western state-making and theories of political transformation / by Charles Tilly.