Coercion and Consent
Studies on the Modern State
1st Edition
Published on 12. September 1994
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-0-7456-1195-2 (ISBN)
Description
This book examines the key institutional structures and processes of modernity. Combining historical insight with sustained political and social analysis, Hall analyses the form and character of capitalism, war, late development, civil society and the the causes and collapse of socialism and addesses the revival of nationalism and the possibilities of democratization.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
358 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7456-1195-2 (9780745611952)
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Person
John A Hall is Emeritus James McGill Professor of Sociology at McGill University and the author of many books including Powers and Liberties: The Causes and Consequences of the Rise of the West (Blackwell, 1985), Liberalism: Politics, Ideology and the Market (Paladin, 1988), Coercion and Consent: Studies on the Modern State (Polity, 1994) and International Orders:Essays, Interpretations and Rejoinders (Polity, 1996).
Content
Acknowledgements. Introduction.
1. Capstones and Organisms.
2. A Curious Stability.
3. An Absolute Collapse.
4. State Power and Patterns of Late Development (written with Ding-Xin Zhao).
5. Consolidations of Democracy.
6. Nationalisms, Classified and Explained.
7. Will the United States Decline as Britain did?.
8. The Weary Titan? Arms and Empire, 1870-1913.
Conclusion: The State of Post-Modernism.
Index.
1. Capstones and Organisms.
2. A Curious Stability.
3. An Absolute Collapse.
4. State Power and Patterns of Late Development (written with Ding-Xin Zhao).
5. Consolidations of Democracy.
6. Nationalisms, Classified and Explained.
7. Will the United States Decline as Britain did?.
8. The Weary Titan? Arms and Empire, 1870-1913.
Conclusion: The State of Post-Modernism.
Index.