Publication

2017 - Cambridge University Press, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

103,000 words, Guess

Page Count

412 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-10110713529X
  • ISBN-101316501132
  • ISBN-139781107135291
  • ISBN-139781316501139
  • Library of Congress Control Number2016023227
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  • OCLC Control Number954424305
  • Better World Books9781107135291
  • Better World Books9781316501139
  • Open LibraryOL27225466M

Classifications

  • DDC320.1
  • LCCJC131 .M333 2017
  • LCCJC131.M333 2016

Description

"The state is central to social scientific and historical inquiry today, reflecting its importance in domestic and international affairs. States kill, coerce, fight, torture, and incarcerate, yet they also nurture, protect, educate, redistribute, and invest. It is precisely because of the complexity and wide-ranging impacts of states that research on them has proliferated and diversified. Yet, too many scholars inhabit separate academic silos, and theorizing of states has become dispersed and disjointed. This book aims to bridge some of the many gaps between scholarly endeavors, bringing together scholars from a diverse array of disciplines and perspectives who study states and empires. The book offers not only a sample of cutting-edge research that can serve as models and directions for future work, but an original conceptualization and theorization of states, their origins and evolution, and their effects"--

Subjects

Other Editions

  • The many hands of the state: theorizing political authority and social controlCambridge University Press2017-01-01

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