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.
İçerik tablosu
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.
Yazar hakkında
John A Hall is Emeritus James Mc Gill Professor of Sociology at Mc Gill 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).
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