Jeffrey Herbst

States and Power in Africa

Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control - Second Edition

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"An original and intriguing book, which I read with the greatest interest. Herbst's argument is provocative and lucidly presented. This book will be read and debated not only by Africanists but also by others in the political science community. It is the most important and successful contribution to the literature on African politics since Jackson and Rosberg's Personal Rule in Black Africa."--Robert H. Bates, Harvard University, author of Open-Economy Politics: The Political Economy of the World Coffee Trade "Herbst's arguments will excite controversy among students of African history and politics, who have built up an extensive story about European transformations of African politics. His analysis raises doubts about how deeply those transformations went; rather, he maintains that durable conditions of topography and social structure have long constrained African state formation. Herbst offers an integrated account of state formation, transformation, and deformation in sub-Saharan Africa."--Charles Tilly, Columbia University, author of Durable Inquality

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• 2nd Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9780691164137
• ISBN-10: 0691164134
• Artikelnr.: 40822616

Autorenporträt

Jeffrey Herbst is president of Colgate University.