TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an overview of the history of the modern state and its role in the development of modern society. But they do not address its relationship with the modern economy.
Abstract: List Of Illustrations.List Of Tables And Maps.Series Editor's Preface.Acknowledgements.Introduction.The Organization Of The Book.Problem One: 'Prime Movers' And The Economic Factor.Problem Two: Global History And Post-Modernism.Problem Three: The Continuing 'Riddle Of The Modern'.Conforming To Standards In Bodily Practice.Building Out From The Body: Communications And Complexity.Afterword.Part I: The End of The Old Regime:.1. Old Regimes And 'Archaic Globalisation':.Peasants And Lords.The Politics Of Difference.Powers On The Fringes Of States.Harbingers Of New Political Formations.The Pre-History Of 'Globalisation'.'Archaic' And Early Modern Globalisation.Prospect.2. Passages From The Old Regimes To Modernity:.The 'Last Great Domestication' And 'Industrious Revolutions'.New Patterns Of Afro-Asian Material Culture, Production And Trade.The Internal And External Limits Of Afro-Asian 'Industrious Revolutions.'.Trade, Finance And Innovation: European Competitive Advantages.The Activist, Patriotic State Evolves.Critical Publics.The Development Of Asian And African Ecumenes.Conclusion: 'Backwardness', Lags And Conjunctures.3. Convergent Revolutions, 1780-1820:.Contemporaries Ponder The World Crisis.A Summary Anatomy Of The World Crisis, C. 1720-1820.Sapping The Legitimacy Of The State: From France To China.The Ideological Origins Of The Modern State.Nationalities Versus States And Empires.The Third Revolution: Polite And Commercial Peoples Worldwide.Prospect.Part II: The Modern World In Genesis:.4. Between World Revolutions, C. 1815-1860.Assessing The 'Wreck Of Nations'.British Maritime Supremacy, World Trade And Agrarian Recovery.Emigration: A Safety Valve.The Losers In The 'New World Order', C. 1815-65.Problems Of Hybrid Legitimacy - Whose State Was It?.The State Gains Strength - But Not Enough.Wars Of Legitimacy In Asia: A Summary Account.Economic And Ideological Roots Of The Asian Revolutions.The Years Of Hunger And Rebellion In Europe, 1848-51.The American Civil War As A Global Event.Convergence Or Difference?.Reviewing The Argument.5. Industrialisation And The New City:.Historians, Industrialisation And Cities.The Progress Of Industrialisation.Cities As Centres Of Production And Consumption.The Urban Impact Of The Global Crisis, 1780-1820.Race And Class In The New City.Working Class Politics.World-Wide Urban Cultures And Their Critics.Conclusion.6. Nation, Empire And Ethnicity: C. 1860-1900:.'Theories' Of Nationalism.When Was Nationalism?.Whose Nationalism?.Perpetuating Nationalisms: Memories, National Associations And Print.From Community To Nation: The Eurasian Empires.Where We Stand With Nationalism.Peoples Without States Persecution Or Assimilation?.Imperialism And Its History In The Late Nineteenth Century.Dimension Of The 'New Imperialism'.A World Of Nation States?.The Persistence Of Old Patterns Of Globalisation.From Globalisation To Inter-Nationalim.Inter-Nationalism In Action.Conclusion.Part III: State And Society In The Age of Imperialism:.7. Myths And Technologies Of The Modern State.Dimensions Of The Modern State.The State And The Historians.Problems Of Defining The State.The Modern State Takes Root Geographical Dimensions.Claims To Justice And Symbols Of Power.The State's Resources.The State's Obligations To Society.Tools Of The State.State, Economy And Nation.A Balance Sheet: What Had The State Achieved?.8. The Theory And Practice Of Liberalism, Rationalism, Socialism And Science.Contextualising 'Intellectual' History.The Corruption Of The Righteous Republic: A Classic Theme.Righteous Republics World-Wide.The Advent Of Liberalism And The Market: Western Exceptionalism?.Liberalism And Land Reform: Radical Theory And Conservative Practice.Free Trade Or National Political Economy.Representing The Peoples.Secularism And Positivism: Trans-National Affinities.The Reception Of Socialism And Its Local Resonances.Science In Global Context.Professionalisation At World Level.Conclusion.9. Empires Of Religion:.Religion In The Eyes Of Contemporaries.The View Of Recent Historians.The Rise Of New-Style Religion.Modes Of Religious Domination, Their Agents And Their Limitations.Formalising Religious Authority, Creating 'Imperial Religions'.Formalising Doctrines And Rites.The Expansion Of 'Imperial Religions' On Their Inner And Outer Frontiers.Pilrimage And Globalisation.Printing And The Propagation Of Religion.Religious Building.Religion And The Nation.Conclusion: The Spirits Of The Age.10. The World Of The Arts And The Imagination:.Arts And Politics.Hybridity And Uniformity In Art Across The Globe.Levelling Forces: The Market, The Everyday And The Museum.The Arts Of The Emerging Nation And Empire 1760-1850.Arts And The People 1850-1914.Outside The West: Adaptation And Dependency.Architecture: A Mirror Of The City.Towards World Literature.Conclusion: Arts And Societies.Prospect.Part IV: Change, Decay And Crisis:.11. The Reconstitution Of Social Hierarchies:.Change And The Historians.Gender And Subordination In The 'Liberal Age'.Slavery's Indian Summer.The Peasant And Rural Labourer As Bond Serf.The Peasant That 'Got Away'.Why Rural Subordination Survived.The Transformation Of 'Gentries'.Challenges To The Gentry.Routes To Survival: State Service And Commerce.Men Of 'Fewer Board Acres' In Europe.Surviving Supremacies.Continuity Or Change?.12. The Destruction Of 'Native Peoples' And Ecological Depredation:.What Is Meant By Native Peoples?.Europeans And Native Peoples Before C. 1820.Native Peoples In The Age Of Hiatus?.The White Deluge 1840-1890.The Deluge In Practice: New Zealand, South Africa And The U.S.A.Ruling Savage Natures: Recovery And Marginalisation.13. Conclusion: The Great Acceleration: C.1890-1914:.Predicting 'Things To Come'.The Agricultural Depression, Inter-Nationalism And The New Imperialism.The Strange Death Of Inter-National Liberalism.Summing Up: Globalisation And Crisis 1780-1914.Global Interconnections 1780-1914.What Were The Motors Of Change?.Power In Global And Inter-National Networks.Contested Uniformity And Universal Complexity Revisited.August 1914.Notes.Bibliography.Index.
TL;DR: In the early 1900s, the Atlantic World Landscapes Progressive Politics Twilight of Laissez-Faire Natural Acts and Social Desires Professing Economics The Self-Owned City The Collectivism of Urban Life Cities on a Hill Civic Ambitions Private Property, Public Designs "City Planning in Justice to the Working Population" The Wage Earners' Risks Workingmen's Insurance Fields of Interest War Collectivism Europe, 1914 Society "More or Less Molten" Rural Reconstruction Cooperative Farming Island Communities The Machine Age The American Invasion of Europe The Politics of Modernism New Deal The
Abstract: Prologue Paris, 1900 World of Iron Explaining Social Politics The Atlantic World Landscapes Progressive Politics Twilight of Laissez-Faire Natural Acts and Social Desires Professing Economics The Self-Owned City The Collectivism of Urban Life Cities on a Hill Civic Ambitions Private Property, Public Designs "City Planning in Justice to the Working Population" The Wage Earners' Risks Workingmen's Insurance Fields of Interest War Collectivism Europe, 1914 Society "More or Less Molten" Rural Reconstruction Cooperative Farming Island Communities The Machine Age The American Invasion of Europe The Politics of Modernism New Deal The Intellectual Economy of Catastrophe Solidarity Imagined London, 1942 The Plan to Abolish Want The Phoenix of Exceptionalism Notes Acknowledgments Index
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TL;DR: The authors examines the roots of penal exceptionalism in Finland, Norway and Sweden, arguing that it emerges from the cultures of equality that existed in these countries which were then embedded in their social fabrics through the universalism of the Scandinavian welfare state.
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