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Coercion and Consent: Studies on the Modern State / Edition 1

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ISBN-10:: 0745611958
ISBN-13:: 9780745611952
Pub. Date:: 10/20/1994
Publisher:: Polity Press

ISBN-10:: 0745611958
ISBN-13:: 9780745611952
Pub. Date:: 10/20/1994
Publisher:: Polity Press

Coercion and Consent: Studies on the Modern State / Edition 1

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Overview

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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ISBN-13:	9780745611952
Publisher:	Polity Press
Publication date:	10/20/1994
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	3.94(w) x 9.84(h) x 0.59(d)

About the Author

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).

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.

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