Leviathan 2.0: Inventing Modern Statehood

by Charles S. Maier

Thomas Hobbes laid the theoretical groundwork of the nation-state in Leviathan, his tough-minded treatise of 1651. Leviathan 2.0 updates this classic account to explain how modern statehood took shape between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, before it unraveled into the political uncertainty that persists today.

Modern states were far from immune to the modernizing forces of war, technology, and ideology. From...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674281322
• ISBN13: 9780674281325
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.3" x 8.0"