States in History
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5838009 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Howard Winant, Howard A Winant |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 604-604 |
| Publication date | 1988-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | States in history, John A Hall, 1986 |
| Venue | Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-3061 • E-ISSN: 1939-8638 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2073940 |
| OpenAlex | W2008344747 |
| Language | EN |
The state has been the subject of lively debate in modern social science, but the abstract and theoretical nature of much of the work is inaccessible. This volume remedies the situation by testing the adequacy of recent theories of the state against the historical record. The collection produces sustained answers to such key questions as the nature of state autonomy, the state's effect on economic development, and the role of nomads in their resistance of the state. While offering a fresh approach, the book maintains a firm empirical grounding in specific societies, from hunter-gatherers to present-day South America. Among the states discussed are Sumer, Imperial China, the states of classical Islam, city-states, the various capitalistic states and the Soviet state. Particular attention is paid to patterns of state formation and the erosion of the nation-state's autonomy by global political dynamics. The distinguished contributors are Clive Gamble, Patricia Crone, Ernest Gellner, Peter Burke, Michael Mann, Colin Crouch, Karen Dawisha, Anthony D. Smith, J.G. Merquior and Susan Strange
Behind governmentality
The post-Leninist state
The dynamics of autocratic coercion after the Cold War
A strong and prosperous condition' - the geography of state building and social reform in Peter the Great's Russia
Conflict, territory and new technologies
The Dynamics of Class Politics and National Economies in Globalisation
The Politics of Extremism in South Asia
Herodotus, Thucydides and the sophists
Reforming Bismarckian Corporatism
Scratching the heart of the artichoke? How international institutions and the European Union constrain the state monopoly of force
Bedouins into Bourgeois
Islamic Populism in Indonesia and the Middle East
The Militarization of Civil Society in Guatemala
Russian state-building and the problems of geopolitics
Cities, states, and trust networks
Timor-Leste
From power politics to social change
War and the State in Africa
Why the Third World Still Matters
The Progress of Literacy
State Strength, Non-State Actors, and the Guatemalan Genocide
Governing Turkey towards the European Union
Tribes and States in the Middle East
Winding Road to Modernization
Paradoxes of New Labour Social Policy
Lunatics, Idiots, Paupers, and Negro Seamen—Immigration Federalism and the Early American State
How the State and Labor Saved Charitable Fundraising
Law Making in Canada
State formation and international aid
Mutual empowerment of state and peasantry
A Millennium of European State Formation
The Siamese Twins
State Capacity and Long‐Run Economic Performance
Anthropology and the classics
Ethnicity and early Greek states
War Making and State Power in the Contemporary Middle East
Institutions and Post-Modernity in IR
German trade policy in Eastern Europe, 1890–1990
Employer Occupation of Regulatory Space of the Employee Information and Consultation (I&C) Directive in Liberal Market Economies
Secularism Beyond the State
Charles Tilly’s Historical Sociology
Personal Networks and Postrevolutionary State Building
Can America Nation-Build
Patronage, Trust, and State Capacity
The Security Problematic of the Third World
Domestic reform and international change
Jim Bulpitt's Territory and Power in the United Kingdom and Interpreting Political Development
Political Centralization and State Interests in Britain
Social Policy through Labor Markets
The Modern State and the Re-Creation of the Indigenous Other
Explaining the Underground Economy
Religion and the rise of capitalism
Resistance and the Arts of Domination
Clan Governance and State Stability
The Autocratic Legacy of Early Statehood
The Ottoman state and the question of state autonomy
A Nation-in-Arms
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