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For a working definition of forgiveness, I think of it as restoring love. Charles Thomas

is made by wars simply because the cost of these wars oblige the kings to exact greater funds from their subjects and therefore to develop a fiscal administration, in other words to territorialize their administration.

His macro-history of Europe shows that state-building owes much to wars: before waging war because of nationalism, nation-states are indeed 'made by wars' simply because the cost of these wars oblige the kings to exact greater funds from their subjects and therefore to develop a fiscal administration, in other words to territorialize their administration (Tilly, 1990).

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