Transcriber’s Note
Text on the original cover was added by the Transcriber and placed in the Public Domain.
THE STATE
ITS HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT VIEWEDSOCIOLOGICALLY
By FRANZ OPPENHEIMER, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Political Science in the University of Frankfort-on-Main
Authorized Translation
By JOHN M. GITTERMAN, Ph.D., LL.B.
(Of the New York County Bar)
New York
VANGUARD PRESS
Copyright, 1914
The Bobbs-Merrill Company
Copyright, 1922
B. W. Huebsch, Inc.
VANGUARD PRINTINGS
First—August, 1926
Second—February, 1928
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
THE MAN (1864—):
Franz Oppenheimer, one of a fairly large numberof British, French and German physicians who abandonedtheir medical pursuits and rose to fame aspolitical economists, was born in Berlin. He studiedand practiced medicine, became private Lecturer ofEconomics at the Berlin University in 1909, and Professorof Sociology at the Frankfort University in1919. His libertarian views made him, for manyyears, the target of academic persecutions, until thegrowing fame of his masterpiece, The State, effectivelysilenced his detractors.
THE BOOK (1908):
The organic history of the State is a long and excitingadventure, usually rendered dull in learnedaccounts. Not so in Oppenheimer’s The State whichextracts that history, in a highly stimulating manner,from the sharp necessities and homicidal conflicts ofall sorts and conditions of men, from the Stone Ageto the Age of Henry Ford. The easy flow of importantinformation derivable from this German volumehas rendered it highly acceptable to American readers.
OTHER BOOKS BY
DOCTOR FRANZ OPPENHEIMER
| Die Siedlungsgenossenschaft | 1896 |
| Grossgrundeigentum und Soziale Frage | 1898 |
| Das Grundgesetz der Marxschen Gesellschaftslehre | 1903 |
| Robertus’ Angriff auf Ricardos Renten-theorie und der Lexis-Diehl’sche Rettungsversuch | 1908 |
| David Ricardos Grundrententheorie | 1909 |
| Theorie der Reinen und Politischen Ökonomie | 1910 |
AUTHOR’S PREFACE
TO THE SECOND AMERICAN EDITION
This little book has made its way. In addition tothe present translation into English, there are authorizededitions in French, Hungarian an