The Making of a State
Title | The Making of a State PDF eBook |
Author | Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk |
Publisher | |
Pages | 552 |
Release | 1927 |
Genre | Czechoslovakia |
ISBN |
State Power and Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East
Title | State Power and Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East PDF eBook |
Author | Roger Owen |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 550 |
Release | 2002-04-12 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1134643543 |
This book continues to serve as an excellent introduction for new-comers to the modern history and politics of a region that is usually portrayed as mysterious, unpredictable and violent.
Civil Rights and the Making of the Modern American State
Title | Civil Rights and the Making of the Modern American State PDF eBook |
Author | Megan Ming Francis |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 217 |
Release | 2014-04-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107037107 |
This book extends what we know about the development of civil rights and the role of the NAACP in American politics. Through a sweeping archival analysis of the NAACP's battle against lynching and mob violence from 1909 to 1923, this book examines how the NAACP raised public awareness, won over American presidents, secured the support of Congress, and won a landmark criminal procedure case in front of the Supreme Court.
The Making of the Modern State
Title | The Making of the Modern State PDF eBook |
Author | B. Nelson |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 189 |
Release | 2006-03-15 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1403983283 |
Nelson provides a historical overview of the theoretical and ideological evolution of the modern state, from pre-state and pre-modern state formations to the present. A major theme of the book is the need to understand the modern state holistically, as a totality of social, political, and ideological factors.
Shaped by the State
Title | Shaped by the State PDF eBook |
Author | Brent Cebul |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 405 |
Release | 2019-02-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 022659646X |
American political history has been built around narratives of crisis, in which what “counts” are the moments when seemingly stable political orders collapse and new ones rise from the ashes. But while crisis-centered frameworks can make sense of certain dimensions of political culture, partisan change, and governance, they also often steal attention from the production of categories like race, gender, and citizenship status that transcend the usual break points in American history. Brent Cebul, Lily Geismer, and Mason B. Williams have brought together first-rate scholars from a wide range of subfields who are making structures of state power—not moments of crisis or partisan realignment—integral to their analyses. All of the contributors see political history as defined less by elite subjects than by tensions between state and economy, state and society, and state and subject—tensions that reveal continuities as much as disjunctures. This broader definition incorporates investigations of the crosscurrents of power, race, and identity; the recent turns toward the history of capitalism and transnational history; and an evolving understanding of American political development that cuts across eras of seeming liberal, conservative, or neoliberal ascendance. The result is a rich revelation of what political history is today.
Making a Slave State
Title | Making a Slave State PDF eBook |
Author | Ryan A. Quintana |
Publisher | UNC Press Books |
Pages | 255 |
Release | 2018-03-19 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1469641070 |
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.
Bringing the State Back In
Title | Bringing the State Back In PDF eBook |
Author | Social Science Research Council (U.S.). Committee on States and Social Structures |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 406 |
Release | 1985-09-13 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780521313131 |
Papers from a conference held at Mount Kisco, N.Y., Feb. 1982, sponsored by the Committee on States and Social Structures, the Joint Committee on Latin American Studies, and the Joint Committee on Western European Studies of the Social Science Research Council. Includes bibliographies and index.