Leviathan 2.0 Inventing Modern Statehood  -  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 reconst...
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2014 Uitgever: Harvard University Press 370 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0674281322 ISBN-13: 9780674281325