... The Rise and Decline of the State The state, which since the middle of the seventeenth century has been the most important and most characteristic of all modern institutions, is in decline ... Technology and War (1988), and The Transformation of War (1991) XXXX The Rise and Decline of the State Martin van Creveld published by the press syndicate of the university of cambridge The Pitt ... fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give them to his servants And...