This book is concerned with the way in which the concept of the state was invoked in British political argument between 1880 and 1914. It central claim is that the decades bracketing the turn of the century witnessed a significant change in the prevailing terms of British political discourse - that the concept of the state, hitherto a relative stranger to British debate, emerged as a key component of the idiom in which critical reflection on politics was cast.
James Meadowcroft surveys the ways in which the state was understood in this period, and also presents a detailed analysis of the conceptions of the state in the work of six prominent theorists: Herbert Spencer, Hugh Cecil, Bernard Bosanquet, L T Hobhouse, J A Hobson and Ramsay MacDonald.
| ISBN: | 9780198206019 |
| Publication date: | 12th October 1995 |
| Author: | James Meadowcroft |
| Publisher: | Clarendon Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 251 pages |
| Series: | Oxford Historical Monographs |
| Genres: |
History of ideas Social and cultural history Political science and theory |
This book is concerned with the way in which the concept of the state was invoked in British political argument between 1880 and 1914. It central claim is that the decades bracketing the turn of the century witnessed a significant change in the prevailing terms of British political discourse - that the concept of the state, hitherto a relative stranger to British debate, emerged as a key component of the idiom in which critical reflection on politics was cast.
Conceptualizing the State features in the following genres: History of ideas, Social and cultural history, Political science and theory
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Conceptualizing the State was written by James Meadowcroft and published by Clarendon Press
Conceptualizing the State has 251 pages
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