Agrarian states never achieved the internal pacification of modern states

Evidence

To the unstable nature of social life in relation to the physical world we have to add, as a further source of insecurity, the prevalence of human violence. The major contrasts to be drawn here are between the larger pre-modern social orders and the modern social universe. The level of violence within and between hunting and gathering cultures appears generally to have been quite low, and there were no specialised warriors. With the appearance of armed soldiery, the situation is quite different. Most agrarian states were based in a very direct way upon military power. Yet, as was mentioned earlier, in such states the monopoly of control of the means of violence on the part of the ruling authorities was always far from complete. Such states were never internally pacified by the standards of modern nation-states. — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 256

Categorization

• XREF: Feeds the reader’s framework: the modern nation-state monopolizes violence, so institutional authority (Darlington’s house, the state) becomes the sole bulwark against chaos — magnifying the cost of misplaced trust. — connects to: Industrialized weaponry and fixed borders make territorial conquest obsolete — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 392; State power and force never extinguished liberationist rebellions; No single group holds ultimate sovereign control in modern states — Ronald M. Dworkin, The Model of Rules, 39

Related

• Monopoly of violence within precise borders is distinctive to the modern state (similarity 0.82)
• A modern state is an institutionalized division of political labor (similarity 0.81)
• The state’s raison d’être is security against the natural equality of potential murderers (similarity 0.79)
• State-led reform and national wars dominate the formation of modern states (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• No single group holds ultimate sovereign control in modern states #corroborates (0.60) — Ronald M. Dworkin, The Model of Rules, 39
• State power and force never extinguished liberationist rebellions #corroborates (0.55)
• Industrialized weaponry and fixed borders make territorial conquest obsolete #qualifies (0.40) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 392