| Preface to the English Edition | p. ix |
| The Rise of Bourgeois States: Preconditions for an Explanation | |
| Miracles, for example | p. 3 |
| States in general, 'bourgeois' states in particular | p. 5 |
| Examples of explanatory approaches | p. 7 |
| False conclusions from structural analysis | p. 28 |
| Pitfalls in historical comparison | p. 31 |
| Advice on reading | p. 36 |
| From Ancien Regime to Bourgeois State: England | |
| 'How then did they do it?' | p. 39 |
| English Feudalism: Appropriation by Land Lordship and Force of Arms under Feudally Generalised Royal Power | p. 41 |
| Preconditions of feudal rule | p. 41 |
| Establishment of feudal power structures | p. 44 |
| The Ancien Regime in England | p. 63 |
| Establishment of the ancien regime | p. 63 |
| Contradictory development of the ancien regime | p. 112 |
| The partial revolutionising of the ancien regime | p. 184 |
| The Estate Constitution of Public Power | p. 247 |
| Dissolution of the personal power of the English monarchs | p. 248 |
| Objectification of local generalised power | p. 253 |
| The 'Establishment': transformation of church rule | p. 263 |
| The Revolutionising of the Forms of Rule of the Ancien Regime into Bourgeois State Power | p. 269 |
| Opening up of centralised power of office | p. 274 |
| Separation of local power of office from the privileges of the landed nobility | p. 288 |
| Dissolution of the ancien regime of appropriation | p. 301 |
| From the 'political nation' to a national political public | p. 308 |
| 'Pomp and circumstance': the English form of bourgeois state power | p. 317 |
| From Ancien Regime to Bourgeois Society: France | |
| The Development of 'Feudal' Power Relations | p. 325 |
| The rule of the aristocracy | p. 325 |
| Hierarchy and immunity | p. 334 |
| Plague, War and Difference | p. 351 |
| The French Ancien Regime | p. 359 |
| Emergence of the ancien regime | p. 359 |
| Contradictory development of the ancien regime | p. 405 |
| The French Revolution as Event and Structural Change | p. 517 |
| The rise of a revolutionary public | p. 522 |
| The struggle for a new order | p. 536 |
| The revolutionising of ancien-regime forms of rule into bourgeois state power | p. 562 |
| Emperor, king and notables: the French constitution of the bourgeois state | p. 585 |
| Results of the Historical Comparison | |
| The conditions of personal rule in England and France | p. 592 |
| Conditions for the emergence of the ancien regime | p. 600 |
| Contradictory development of the ancient regime | p. 604 |
| From ancien regime to bourgeois state power: reasons for the 'special roads' | p. 617 |
| The Organisation of Generalised Power: A Conceptual Framework for Historical Epochs | |
| Feudalism | p. 632 |
| Ancien regime | p. 645 |
| Bourgeois state | p. 662 |
| Annotated Bibliography | p. 689 |
| Index | p. 791 |
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