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Prologue

Limits to Early Modern State Resilience

from Part II - The Emergence of Modern Politics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 November 2023

Wenkai He
Affiliation:
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
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The prologue to Part II synthesizes the major causes of the resilience of early modern states despite their limited capacities. It explores the conditions that led to the collapse of state–society collaboration in pursuit of good governance. Big historical events – the English Civil War, the Meiji Restoration, and the Taiping Rebellion – forced the state in each case to search for new institutions to safeguard various dimensions of the public interest in the new socioeconomic circumstances and so reestablish its legitimacy.

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Public Interest and State Legitimation
Early Modern England, Japan, and China
, pp. 185 - 192
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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  • Prologue
  • Wenkai He, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
  • Book: Public Interest and State Legitimation
  • Online publication: 17 November 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009334525.008
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  • Prologue
  • Wenkai He, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
  • Book: Public Interest and State Legitimation
  • Online publication: 17 November 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009334525.008
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  • Prologue
  • Wenkai He, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
  • Book: Public Interest and State Legitimation
  • Online publication: 17 November 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009334525.008
Available formats
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