Leviathan 2. 0 Inventing Modern Statehood

Name: Leviathan 2. 0 Inventing Modern Statehood
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ISBN: 9780674281325

ISBN-10: 0674281322

ISBN-13: 9780674281325

Edition: 2014

Authors: Charles S. Maier

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Thomas Hobbes laid the theoretical groundwork of the nation-state in Leviathan, his tough-minded treatise of 1651. Leviathan 2.0 updates this classic account to explain how modern statehood took shape between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, before it unraveled into the political uncertainty that persists today.Modern states were far from immune to the modernizing forces of war, technology, and ideology. From 1845 to 1880, the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Argentina were all reconstituted through territorial violence. Europe witnessed the unification of Germany and Italy, while Asian nations such as Japan tried to mitigate foreign incursions through state-building…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 4/21/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 0.57" wide x 0.82" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English