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"Dmitry Shlapentokh's deliciously Hobbesian tour de force effectively challenges reigning views of the modern state as the product of ideology, discourse, rational choice, contingency, and institutional utility. And by taking crime, banditry, and violence seriously, Shlapentokh persuasively argues that societal disintegration gave rise to the 'strong repressive state,' which in turn enabled civil society and democracy to emerge. Everyone with a theory of the state should read this book." - Alexander J. Motyl, Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University - Newark
"This book examines the link between social disorder, revolution, totalitarianism, and restoration of 'the basic order.' Shalpentokh locates his historical causes not in socio-political conflicts, but rather in the associated behaviors that confront order itself. Shlapentokh asks the question: is post-totalitarianism to be our future? This is a provocative thesis and a challenge to the historicity of events, with political implications. This book promises controversy." - Claudio Sergio Nun Ingerflom, Director of Research, Centre National de Recherches Scientifiques, France
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Book Title: Societal Breakdown and the Rise of the Early Modern State in Europe
Book Subtitle: Memory of the Future
Authors: Dmitry Shlapentokh
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230610422
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-60375-2Published: 09 April 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-37175-4Published: 09 October 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-61042-2Published: 21 January 2008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: V, 233
Topics: European History, Modern History, Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Political Sociology, Political History, Popular Science in Education