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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2018

Edited by
John L. Brooke ,
Julia C. Strauss  and
Greg Anderson
John L. Brooke
Affiliation:
Ohio State University
Julia C. Strauss
Affiliation:
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Greg Anderson
Affiliation:
Ohio State University

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State Formations
Global Histories and Cultures of Statehood
 , pp. vii - ix
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

Contents

  1. List of Figures and Maps

  2. List of Tables

  3. List of Contributors

  4. Preface

  5. Acknowledgments

  6. Introduction: Approaches to State Formations

    John L. Brooke and Julia C. Strauss

  7. Part IDefinitions

    1. 1On the Person of the State

      Quentin Skinner

    2. 2The State as a Social Relation

      Bob Jessop

    3. 3Was There Any Such Thing as a Nonmodern State?

      Greg Anderson

  8. Part IIFoundings

    1. 4Comparative Perspectives and Early States Revisited

      Rita P. Wright

    2. 5(Re)Introducing the State on the Medieval Swahili Coast

      Chapurukha M. Kusimba

    3. 6Renaissance States of Mind

      Michael Martoccio

    4. 7Bringing the Sarkār Back In: Translating Patrimonialism and the State in Early Modern and Early Colonial India

      Nicholas J. Abbott

    5. 8Revolutionary State Formation: The Origins of the Strong American State

      William J. Novak and Steven Pincus

    6. 9The Founding of Nondemocratic States

      Richard Bensel

  9. Part IIIAgendas

    1. 10Empire as State: The Roman Case

      Clifford Ando

    2. 11Weights and Measures and State Formation: The View from the Early American Republic

      Stephen Mihm

    3. 12Mapping Power: The Shape of the State in the Post–Civil War American South

      Gregory P. Downs

    4. 13To Bee or Not to Bee: The Coproduction of Modern Science and the Modern State

      John F. M. Clark

    5. 14Taxes and the Two Faces of the State since the Eighteenth Century

      Yannis D. Kotsonis

    6. 15Regimes and Repertoires of State Building: The Two Chinas and Regime Consolidation in the Early 1950s

      Julia C. Strauss

  10. Part IVMemberships

    1. 16The Mesopotamian Citizen Conceptualized: Affect, Speech, and Perception

      Seth Richardson

    2. 17Military Mobilization and the Experience of Living with the Ming State

      Michael Szonyi

    3. 18Ethnicity and Power in Early Modern Europe and Asia

      Victor Lieberman

    4. 19Patriliny and Modern States in the Middle East

      Diane E. King

    5. 20Social Service, Convivialismo, and Hegemony in Colombia

      Rebecca Tally

    6. 21Indian Affirmative Action and the Postcolonial State

      Anupama Rao

  11. Conclusion: Notes toward a Global Synthesis

    John L. Brooke and Julia C. Strauss

  12. Index

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