Author: Henri J. M. ClaessenPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110813327
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 705
Book Description
The Early State
Author: Henri J. M. ClaessenPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110813327
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 705
Book Description
Early State Economics
Author: Henri J. M. ClaessenPublisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 141282205X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
This volume focuses on the political economy of early state societies and the ways in which the income of the central government of such systems was collected and spent. At the theoretical end of the spectrum, this book offers a general discussion of the concept of political economy; modes of production in antiquity; and an overview of early state organizational forms. With the data represented in this volume, such theoretical viewpoints are evaluated and it is concluded that inherited approaches fall far short of explaining the political economies of early states.
Boundaries of the State in US History
Author: James T. SparrowPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022627778X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The question of how the American state defines its powernot what it is” but what itdoeshas become central to a range of historical discourses, from the founding of the Republic and the role of the educational system, to the functions of agencies and America's place in the world. Here, James Sparrow, William J. Novak, and Stephen Sawyer assemble some definitional work in this area, showing that the state is an integral actor in physical, spatial, and economic exercises of power. They further imply that traditional conceptions of the state cannot grasp the subtleties of power and its articulation. Contributors include C.J. Álvarez, Elisabeth Clemens, Richard John, Robert Lieberman, Omar McRoberts, Gautham Rao, Gabriel Rosenberg, Jason Scott Smith, Tracy Steffes, and the editors.
War and State Formation in Ancient China and Early Modern Europe
Author: Victoria Tin-bor HuiPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521525763
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
There is a common belief that the system of sovereign territorial states and the roots of liberal democracy are unique to European civilization and alien to non-Western cultures. The view has generated popular cynicism about democracy promotion in general and China's prospect for democratization in particular. This book demonstrates that China in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods (656-221 BC) consisted of a system of sovereign territorial states similar to Europe in the early modern period. It examines why China and Europe shared similar processes but experienced opposite outcomes.
The American National State and the Early West
Author: William H. BergmannPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107015286
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Challenges the myth that the American national state was weak in the early days of the republic and provides a new narrative of American expansionism.
Making a Slave State
Author: Ryan A. QuintanaPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469641070
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
How is the state produced? In what ways did enslaved African Americans shape modern governing practices? Ryan A. Quintana provocatively answers these questions by focusing on the everyday production of South Carolina's state space—its roads and canals, borders and boundaries, public buildings and military fortifications. Beginning in the early eighteenth century and moving through the post–War of 1812 internal improvements boom, Quintana highlights the surprising ways enslaved men and women sat at the center of South Carolina's earliest political development, materially producing the state's infrastructure and early governing practices, while also challenging and reshaping both through their day-to-day movements, from the mundane to the rebellious. Focusing on slaves' lives and labors, Quintana illuminates how black South Carolinians not only created the early state but also established their own extralegal economic sites, social and cultural havens, and independent communities along South Carolina's roads, rivers, and canals. Combining social history, the study of American politics, and critical geography, Quintana reframes our ideas of early American political development, illuminates the material production of space, and reveals the central role of slaves' daily movements (for their owners and themselves) to the development of the modern state.
The State in Early Modern France
Author: James B. CollinsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521387248
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
A major new textbook examining the nature of the state and the monarchy in early modern France.
Toward "thorough, Accurate, and Reliable"
Author: William B. McAllisterPublisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780160932120
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Toward "Thorough, Accurate, and Reliable" explores the evolution of the Foreign Relations of the United States documentary history series from its antecedents in the early republic through the early 21st century implementation of its current mandate, the 1991 Foreign Relations statute. This book traces how policymakers and an expanding array of stakeholders translated values like "security," "legitimacy," and "transparency" into practice as they debated how to balance the government's obligation to protect sensitive information with its commitment to openness. Determining the "people's right to know" has fueled lively discussion for over two centuries, and this work provides important, historically informed perspectives valuable to policymakers and engaged citizens as that conversation continues. Policymakers, citizens, especially political science researchers, political scientists, academic, high school, public librarians and students performing research for foreign policy issues will be most interested in this volume. Other related products: Available print volumes of the Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) series can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/international-foreign-affairs/foreign-relations-united-states-series-frus
The Study of the State
Author: Henri J. ClaessenPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110825791
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 553
Book Description
The Study of the State.
Writing and the Ancient State
Author: Haicheng WangPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107785871
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 435
Book Description
Writing and the Ancient State explores the early development of writing and its relationship to the growth of political structures. The first part of the book focuses on the contribution of writing to the state's legitimating project. The second part deals with the state's use of writing in administration, analyzing both textual and archaeological evidence to reconstruct how the state used bookkeeping to allocate land, police its people, and extract taxes from them. The third part focuses on education, the state's system for replenishing its staff of scribe-officials. The first half of each part surveys evidence from Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Maya lowlands, Central Mexico, and the Andes; against this background the second half examines the evidence from China. The chief aim of this book is to shed new light on early China (from the second millennium BC through the end of the Han period, ca. 220 AD) while bringing to bear the lens of cross-cultural analysis on each of the civilizations under discussion.