The Imported State: The Westernization of the Political Order

by Bertrand Badie

Book Overview

This book traces the rise of the modern state--a mode of organizing political power within a closed territory--in post-Enlightenment Europe and its spread to the remainder of the world, especially colonial and postcolonial societies. The result of a long process of evolution dating back to the Roman Empire, this new form of state was characterized by the coincidence of public power and public space and the legalization of political and social relations...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804737673
• ISBN13: 9780804737678
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"