Arguing that states emerged in Western Europe as powerful political-geographical centres rather than nation-states or national states, Samuel Clark examines and compares the centres and peripheries of these two large regional zones, focusing not only on England and France but also on Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Savoy, and the Southern Low Countries. This wide-ranging and multifaceted work shows how the state shaped the aristocracy and transformed its political, economic, cultural, and status power.
From a theoretical perspective, State and Status is both innovative and significant; Clark is the first to link the anti-functionalist historical sociology of Western Europe with the functionalist or neofunctionalist tradition in sociology.
| ISBN: | 9780773512269 |
| Publication date: | 14th June 1995 |
| Author: | Samuel Clark |
| Publisher: | McGill-Queen's University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 520 pages |
| Genres: |
History Politics and government |
Arguing that states emerged in Western Europe as powerful political-geographical centres rather than nation-states or national states, Samuel Clark examines and compares the centres and peripheries of these two large regional zones, focusing not only on England and France but also on Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Savoy, and the Southern Low Countries. This wide-ranging and multifaceted work shows how the state shaped the aristocracy and transformed its political, economic, cultural, and status power.
State and Status features in the following genres: History, Politics and government
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State and Status was written by Samuel Clark and published by McGill-Queen's University Press
State and Status has 520 pages