Oiboy27 at aol.com wrote:
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> Very interesting. I did not realize that Louis II (r. 1461-1483), arguably
> the founder of the modern nation-state (read "Rosebush of War"), had
> global-capitalism intentions. In fact, my impression was that he was
> concerned with strengthening France against foreign . . . .
I'm depending on my memory here and perhaps one of the historians on the list can correct or supplement me. I remember some historian (Braudel?) who argued that the empires of Charles V and Francis II failed because they attempted to build old-style tributary type empires at a time when the development of commodity production and international finance was undermining the viability of such empires. ???????
Carrol