The many hands of the state
Subtitle: theorizing political authority and social control
By: edited by Kimberly J. Morgan, George Washington University ; Ann Shola Orloff, Northwestern University
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9781107135291; 9781316501139
Subjects: Social control; Philosophy; The State; Authority; Case studies
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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.