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Histoire de la construction de l'Etat

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This textbook covers the entire history of the construction of the State in France, from its medieval origins to the present day. Adopting both a thematic and chronological approach, it endeavors, for each chapter, to expose "the political state," in particular its values and their repercussions on its functioning, and "the administrative state," sometimes presented in the guise of "the administrative constitution of France".This dual approach, informed by the history of political, legal and economic ideas, reveals the ideological, constitutional and administrative foundations of our state, while measuring the evolving nature of its main defining criteria (population, territory, governmental apparatus, international recognition). It also helps us understand the differences with other forms of political organization, such as the city or the empire, while questioning the use of concepts from Antiquity to forge our own state construction.Finally, attentive to contemporary issues, the textbook takes the decision to address, by carefully tracing their history, all the major themes with which the State is confronted or involved today (secularism; education and culture; public health and social assistance; relations with authoritarianism; digital revolution, etc.).