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Author Bueno de Mesquita, Bruce, 1946- author.

Title The invention of power : popes, kings, and the birth of the West / Bruce Bueno de Mesquita.

Publication Info. New York : PublicAffairs, 2022.

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Location Call No. Status
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  909 BUENO DE MESQUITA, B.    Storage
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  909.09 BEUNO DE MESQUITA    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  941 DE MESQUITA    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  909 DE MESQUITA    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description viii, 337 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-319) and index.
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.
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Civilization, Western -- Christian influences.
Church and state -- Europe, Western -- History.
Exceptionalism -- Europe, Western -- History.
Catholic Church. Treaties, etc. Holy Roman Empire, 1122 September 23.
Church and state. (OCoLC)fst00860509
Civilization, Western -- Christian influences. (OCoLC)fst00863143
Exceptionalism. (OCoLC)fst01748515
Western Europe. (OCoLC)fst01272478
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 9781541768758 (hardcover)
1541768752 (hardcover)
9781541774407 (epub)
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