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The sociology of the state

Paperback • 1983 • English

The sociology of the state

By Badie, Bertrand

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Too often we think of the modern political state as a universal institution, the inevitable product of History rather than a specific creation of a very particular history. Bertrand Badie and Pierre Birnbaum here persuasively argue that the origin of the state is a social fact, arising out of the peculiar sociohistorical context of Western Europe. Drawing on historical materials and bringing sociological insights to bear on a field long abandoned to jurists and political scientists, the authors ...Show more

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9780226035499

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published year

1983

Language

English

Original title

The sociology of the state

Format

Paperback

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