States and Power

by Richard Lachmann

Book Overview

States over the past 500 years have become the dominant institutions on Earth, exercising vast and varied authority over the economic well-being, health, welfare, and very lives of their citizens. This concise and engaging book explains how power became centralized in states at the expense of the myriad of other polities that had battled one another over previous millennia. Richard Lachmann traces the contested and historically contingent struggles...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745645399
• ISBN13: 9780745645391
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.2"