Franz Oppenheimer

AUTHOR'S PREFACE TO THE SECOND AMERICAN EDITION

CONTENTS

THE STATE

CHAPTER I THEORIES OF THE STATE

CHAPTER II THE GENESIS OF THE STATE

CHAPTER III THE PRIMITIVE FEUDAL STATE (a) THE FORM OF DOMINION

CHAPTER IV THE MARITIME STATE

CHAPTER V THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE FEUDAL STATE (a) THE GENESIS OF LANDED PROPERTY

CHAPTER VI THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL STATE

CHAPTER VII THE TENDENCY OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE STATE

NOTES

Transcriber's Notes

Transcriber’s Note
Text on the original cover was added by the Transcriber and placed in the Public Domain.

THE STATE

ITS HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT VIEWED SOCIOLOGICALLY

By FRANZ OPPENHEIMER, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Political Science in the University of Frankfort-on-Main

Authorized Translation
By JOHN M. GITTERMAN, Ph.D., LL.B.
(Of the New York County Bar)

New York
VANGUARD PRESS

Copyright, 1914
The Bobbs-Merrill Company

Copyright, 1922
B. W. Huebsch, Inc.

VANGUARD PRINTINGS
First—August, 1926
Second—February, 1928

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

THE MAN (1864—):

Franz Oppenheimer, one of a fairly large number of British, French and German physicians who abandoned their medical pursuits and rose to fame as political economists, was born in Berlin. He studied and practiced medicine, became private Lecturer of Economics at the Berlin University in 1909, and Professor of Sociology at the Frankfort University in 1919. His libertarian views made him, for many years, the target of academic persecutions, until the growing fame of his masterpiece, The State, effectively silenced his detractors.

THE BOOK (1908):

The organic history of the State is a long and exciting adventure, usually rendered dull in learned accounts. Not so in Oppenheimer’s The State which extracts that history, in a highly stimulating manner, from the sharp necessities and homicidal conflicts of all sorts and conditions of men, from the Stone Age to the Age of Henry Ford. The easy flow of important information derivable from this German volume has rendered it highly acceptable to American readers.