The Sociology of the State

by Bertrand Badie, Pierre Birnbaum, Arthur Goldhammer

Book Overview

Too often we think of the modern political state as a universal institution, the inevitable product of History rather than a specific creation of a very particular history. Bertrand Badie and Pierre Birnbaum here persuasively argue that the origin of the state is a social fact, arising out of the peculiar sociohistorical context of Western Europe. Drawing on historical materials and bringing sociological insights to bear on a field long abandoned...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226035492
• ISBN13: 9780226035499
• Release Date: May 1983
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.6"