People/states/territories: the political geographies of British state transformation
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Beteilige Person: Jones, Rhys (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Malden, MA Blackwell Pub. c2007
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-207) and index
Acknowledgements -- Introduction: state personnel and the reproduction of state forms -- Analysing an emergent state: state actors and a territorial state apparatus -- Thinking about the stateø -- Medieval and early modern political theory: conceptualising political authority -- Weber and the bureaucratic machine of the modern state -- The human geographies of strategic-relational state theory -- Exploring the networked state -- Bringing it all together: analysing an emergent state -- Peopling the medieval state -- A case of stating the obvious? -- People and the feudal state -- State leaders and the emergence of medieval state forms in the British Isles -- Local government and the validation and contestation of state forms -- The medieval state: different not worse? -- Embodying early modern state consolidation -- Peopling the central state apparatus -- The body politic: JPs and the political constitution of England and Wales -- Shaping and steering the local state -- State personnel and the embodiment of early modern state consolidation -- The state of high modernity: the age of the inspector -- The nineteenth-century revolution in government -- The age of the inspector -- Leonard Horner and the regulation of factory production -- Embodying a tentative state consolidation -- Breaking-up: people and the late modern UK state -- The challenges of executive devolution in the UK -- New devolved organizations, new organizational cultures -- State personnel and the øjoining upø of regional governance -- Territorial identities and the reproduction of devolution -- Devolution in prospect -- Conclusions: peopling the state -- Bibliography
Umfang:xiv, 216 p. ill., maps 24 cm