States and Citizens

The imminent demise of the nation-state in the face of global capitalism and supra-national agencies like the United Nations has often been predicted, yet in practice the death of the state seems unimaginable: indeed terrorist activity and corporate collapse have made states, if anything, more assertive in recent years, and the condition of 'statelessness' is regarded as pitiable and grave in the extreme. This volume offers a coherent survey of perceptions of the state, its history, its theoretical underpinnings, and its prospects in the contemporary world. The coverage of the Western European experience is thorough and wide-ranging, with the greatest post-colonial democratic state, India, as a comparative example. The provocative and accessible contributions of a very distinguished and genuinely pan-European team of contributors ensure that States and Citizens provides a unique and valuable resource, of interest to students and teachers of the history of ideas, political theory and European studies. Professer Skinner has been awarded the Balzan Prize Life Time Achievement Award for Political Thought, History and Theory. Full details of this award can be found at http://www.balzan. it/News_eng.aspx?ID=2474

ISBN 0521831563   Pages 244 ISBN13 9780521831567 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Cambridge University Press   Weight (grammes) 518 Imprint Cambridge University Press   Published in Cambridge Format Hardback   Height (mm) 228 Publication date 16 Oct 2003   Width (mm) 152 Library of Congress JC11 .S772 2003   Spine width (mm) 21 DEWEY 320.101   Academic level Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC21

		List of contributors
		Acknowledgements
		Introduction by Bo Strath and Quentin Skinner		1
1		States and the freedom of citizens by Quentin Skinner		11
2		The concept of the state: the sovereignty of a fiction by David Runciman		28
3		Citizens and the state: retrospect and prospect by Gianfranco Poggi		39
4		Freedom, law, and the medieval state by Magnus Ryan		51
5		States, cities and citizens in the later Middle Ages by Almut Hofert		63
6		The states and its rivals in early-modern Europe by Martin Van Gelderen		79
7		The development of the idea of citizen's rights by Annabel S. Brett		97
8		Enlightenment's differences, today's identities by Judith A. Vega		115
9		Citizen and state under the French Revolution by Lucien Jaume		131
10		A state of contradictions: the post-colonial state in India by Sudipta Kaviraj		145
11		The state and its critics: is there a post-modern challenge? by Bo Strath		167
12		Citizenship and equality of the sexes: the French model in question by Michele Riot Sarcey		191
13		States, citizens, and the environment by Andrew Dobson		208
		Index		226

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