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Richard Lachmann - States and Power - 9780745645391 - V9780745645391
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States and Power

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Description for States and Power Paperback. 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. Series: Polity Political Sociology Series. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 209 x 18. Weight in Grams: 324.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Series
Polity Political Sociology Series
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745645391
SKU
V9780745645391
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About Richard Lachmann
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.

Reviews for States and Power
"A mini-classic, indispensible for those who are interested in the history and future of the nation-state and the international system. Essential." —Choice "An excellent book ... all the more remarkable because in spite of its relative brevity it addresses its theme in a manner characterized among other things by its [chronological, geographical and theoretical] scope ... It is ... Read more

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