Author : Anthony Giddens
Release : 1985
Genre : Historical materialism
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Book Rating : 350/5 ( reviews)

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The Nation-state and Violence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Nation-state and Violence write by Anthony Giddens. This book was released on 1985. The Nation-state and Violence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The social sciences have long been based upon contrasts drawn between the 'militaristic' societies of the past, and the 'capitalist' or 'industrial' societies of the present. But how valid are such contrasts, given that the current era is one stamped by the impact of war and by the intensive development of sophisticated weaponry? In setting out to address this and similar questions, this book investigates issues that have been substantially neglected by those working in sociology and social theory. Anthony Giddens offers a sociological analysis of the nature of the modern nation-state and its association with the means of waging war. His analysis is connected in a detailed way to problems that have traditionally preoccupied sociologists - the impact of capitalism and industrialism upon social development in the modern period. The result is a theory both of the institutional parameters of modernity and of the nature of international relations."--Provided by publisher