The modern state / Christopher Pierson
- Bib ID:
- 3121338
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Pierson, Christopher
- Online Version:
- Table of contents
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- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Description:
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- London ; New York : Routledge, 2004
- 195 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0415329329
- 0415329337
- Summary:
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"The modern state is hugely important in our everyday lives. It takes nearly half our income in taxes. It registers our births, marriages and deaths. It educates our children and pays our pensions. It has a unique power to compel, in some cases exercising the ultimate sanction of preserving life or ordering death. Yet most of us would struggle to say exactly what the state is." "The new edition of this textbook continues to provide the clearest and most comprehensive introduction to the modern state. It examines the state from its historical origins at the birth of modernity to its current jeopardized position in the globalized politics of the twenty-first century." "Updated and revised with two new chapters, students will continue to find The Modern State an introduction to one of the most important phenomena of contemporary life."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- 1. Modern states
- 2. Placing the state in modernity
- 3. States and societies
- 4. State and economy
- 5. States and citizens
- 6. States and the international order
- 7. States of the twenty-first century
- 8. Conclusion.
- Notes:
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- Previous ed: 1996.
- Includes bibliographical references (p.[183]-192) and index.
- Subject:
- State, The
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
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