TY - BOOK
T1 - The many hands of the state
T2 - Theorizing political authority and social control
AU - Morgan, Kimberly J.
AU - Orloff, Ann Shola
PY - 2017/2/27
Y1 - 2017/2/27
N2 - The state is central to social scientific and historical inquiry today, reflecting its importance in domestic and international affairs. States kill, coerce, fight, torture, and incarcerate, yet they also nurture, protect, educate, redistribute, and invest. It is precisely because of the complexity and wide-ranging impacts of states that research on them has proliferated and diversified. Yet, too many scholars inhabit separate academic silos, and theorizing of states has become dispersed and disjointed. This book aims to bridge some of the many gaps between scholarly endeavors, bringing together scholars from a diverse array of disciplines and perspectives who study states and empires. The book offers not only a sample of cutting-edge research that can serve as models and directions for future work, but an original conceptualization and theorization of states, their origins and evolution, and their effects. Provides scholars and students with a conceptual apparatus and set of questions that can guide their research. Allows readers to gain an overview of where research currently stands and where it could go next. Provides a synthetic view of a diverse scholarly literature.
AB - The state is central to social scientific and historical inquiry today, reflecting its importance in domestic and international affairs. States kill, coerce, fight, torture, and incarcerate, yet they also nurture, protect, educate, redistribute, and invest. It is precisely because of the complexity and wide-ranging impacts of states that research on them has proliferated and diversified. Yet, too many scholars inhabit separate academic silos, and theorizing of states has become dispersed and disjointed. This book aims to bridge some of the many gaps between scholarly endeavors, bringing together scholars from a diverse array of disciplines and perspectives who study states and empires. The book offers not only a sample of cutting-edge research that can serve as models and directions for future work, but an original conceptualization and theorization of states, their origins and evolution, and their effects. Provides scholars and students with a conceptual apparatus and set of questions that can guide their research. Allows readers to gain an overview of where research currently stands and where it could go next. Provides a synthetic view of a diverse scholarly literature.
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U2 - 10.1017/9781316471586
DO - 10.1017/9781316471586
M3 - Book
AN - SCOPUS:85049405663
SN - 9781107135291
BT - The many hands of the state
PB - Cambridge University Press
ER -