Richard Lachmann: States and Power

Cover: 9780745645391 | States and Power | Richard Lachmann | Taschenbuch | 224 S. | Englisch

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States over the past 500 years have become the dominant institutions on Earth, exercising vast and varied authority over the economic well-being, health, welfare, and very lives of their citizens. This concise and engaging book explains how power became centralized in states at the expense of the myriad of other polities that had battled one another over previous millennia.

Richard Lachmann traces the contested and historically contingent struggles by which subjects began to see themselves as citizens of nations and came to associate their interests and identities with states, and explains why the civil rights and benefits they achieved, and the taxes and military service they in turn rendered to their nations, varied so much. Looking forward, Lachmann examines the future in store for states: will they gain or lose strength as they are buffeted by globalization, terrorism, economic crisis and environmental disaster?

This stimulating book offers a comprehensive evaluation of the social science literature that addresses these issues and situates the state at the center of the world history of capitalism, nationalism and democracy. It will be essential reading for scholars and students across the social and political sciences.

Über den Autor

Richard Lachmann is Professor of Sociology at the University at Albany, State University of New York. His book, Capitalists In Spite of Themselves: Elite Conflict and Economic Transitions in Early Modern Europe, received the 2003 Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award from the American Sociological Association.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface vii

Acknowledgments xiv

1 Before States 1

2 The Origins of States 25

3 Nations and Citizens 66

4 States and Capitalist Development 101

5 Democracy, Civil Rights, and Social Benefits 130

6 State Breakdowns 173

7 The Future 191

Notes 208

Bibliography 214

Index 229

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2010
Genre:	Soziologie
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	224 S.
ISBN-13:	9780745645391
ISBN-10:	0745645399
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Lachmann, Richard
Hersteller:	Polity Press John Wiley & Sons
Maße:	208 x 147 x 18 mm
Von/Mit:	Richard Lachmann
Erscheinungsdatum:	05.01.2010
Gewicht:	0,34 kg

Artikel-ID: 101401849