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Leviathan 2.0: Inventing Modern Statehood
Charles S. Maier
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Description for Leviathan 2.0: Inventing Modern Statehood
Paperback. Thomas Hobbes laid the theoretical groundwork of the nation-state in Leviathan, his tough-minded 1651 treatise. Charles Maier's Leviathan 2.0 updates this classic to explain how modern statehood took shape between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, before it unraveled into the political uncertainty that persists today. Num Pages: 360 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; HBG; HBLL; HBLW; JPA; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 209 x 23. Weight in Grams: 450.
Thomas Hobbes laid the theoretical groundwork of the nation-state in Leviathan, his tough-minded treatise of 1651. Leviathan 2.0 updates this classic account to explain how modern statehood took shape between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, before it unraveled into the political uncertainty that persists today. Modern states were far from immune to the modernizing forces of war, technology, and ideology. From 1845 to 1880, the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Argentina were all reconstituted through territorial violence. Europe witnessed the unification of Germany and Italy, while Asian nations such as Japan tried to mitigate foreign incursions through ... Read more
Thomas Hobbes laid the theoretical groundwork of the nation-state in Leviathan, his tough-minded treatise of 1651. Leviathan 2.0 updates this classic account to explain how modern statehood took shape between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, before it unraveled into the political uncertainty that persists today. Modern states were far from immune to the modernizing forces of war, technology, and ideology. From 1845 to 1880, the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Argentina were all reconstituted through territorial violence. Europe witnessed the unification of Germany and Italy, while Asian nations such as Japan tried to mitigate foreign incursions through ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Belknap Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780674281325
SKU
V9780674281325
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About Charles S. Maier
Charles S. Maier is Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History at Harvard University.
Reviews for Leviathan 2.0: Inventing Modern Statehood
Maier is particularly good on the ways that improved communications and transportation could facilitate new forms of state power, but also help to provoke revolution everywhere from Mexico to China to Russia.
(10/07/2013)
(10/07/2013)