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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
February 2017
Print publication year:
2017
Online ISBN:
9781316493694
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316493694
Subjects:
Social Theory, Politics and International Relations, Comparative Politics, Sociology
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Book description

Arising from renewed engagement with Charles Tilly's canonical work on the relationship between war and state formation, this volume situates Tilly's work in a broader theoretical landscape and brings it into contemporary debates on state formation theory. Starting with Tilly's famous dictum 'war made the state, and the state made war', the book takes his claim further, examining it from a philosophical, theoretical and conceptual view, and asking whether it is applicable to non-European regions such as the Middle East, South America and China. The authors question Tilly's narrow view of the causal relationship between warfare and state-making, and use a positive yet critical approach to suggest alternative ways to explain how the state is formed. Readers will gain a comprehensive view of the most recent developments in the literature on state formation, as well as a more nuanced view of Charles Tilly's work.

Reviews

'This is an outstanding scholarly contribution - an important work well written and exhaustively researched … it is a new take on historical sociology in general and the important questions that have defined it for the past thirty years.'

Miguel A. Centeno - Princeton University, New Jersey

‘Charles Tilly's claim that war-making helped state-building has long had the status of established truth. This superb collection offers several challenges - both in the European core and in other civilizations - that make us rethink matters. The book will, for sure, gain a wide readership.'

John A. Hall - McGill University, Montréal

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