Rhys Jones

People - States - Territories (eBook, PDF)

The Political Geographies of British State Transformation

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Produktbeschreibung

People/States/Territories examines the role of state personnel in shaping, and being shaped by, state organizations and territories, and demonstrates how agents have actively contributed to the reproduction and transformation of the British state over the long term. * A valuable corrective to recent characterizations of territory as a static and given geographical concept * An explication of the political geographies of state reproduction and transformation, through its focus on state territoriality and the variegated character of state power * Considerable empirical insight into the consolidation of the British state over the long term.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781405182096
• Artikelnr.: 38282018

Autorenporträt

Rhys Jones is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, whose research interests lie in the political geographies of state transformation. His work has appeared in a number of papers published in international social science journals.

Inhaltsangabe

Series Editors' Preface.

Acknowledgements.

1. Introduction: state personnel and the reproduction of stateforms.

2. Analysing an emergent state: state actors and a territorialstate apparatus.

3. Peopling the medieval state.

4. Embodying early modern state consolidation.

5. The state of high modernity: the age of the inspector.

6. Breaking-up: people and the late modern UK state.

7. Conclusions: peopling the state.

Bibliography.

Index

Rezensionen

"Peoples/States/Territories is an extremely important book.It provides a compelling historical analysis of the British stateand will be of interest to geographers, political scientists,historians and sociologists. It is the best account we have on theterritorial foundations of British political authority anddemonstrates the enormous potential of integrating techniques andideas from both historical and political geography."
Mike Heffernan, University of Nottingham

"This is an original and well written book that will addsignificantly to arguments about state formation in the UK. Itbrings a valuable historical perspective to the debate and turns anoverdue spotlight on the role of people in the shaping of stateinstitutions."
Joe Painter, Durham University