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Autore |
Jones Rhys |
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Titolo |
People - States - Territories [[electronic resource] ] : The Political Geographies of British State Transformation |
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ISBN |
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1-4443-9947-0 |
0-470-71284-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (417 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Great Britain - Politics and government |
Great Britain -- Politics and government |
Local government - Great Britain |
Local government -- Great Britain |
Professional employees in government - Great Britain |
Professional employees in government -- Great Britain |
State, The |
Government - Europe |
Government - Non-U.S |
Law, Politics & Government |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; RGS-IBG Book Series; Title page; Copyright Page; Dedication; List of Figures; List of Tables; Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter One: Introduction:State Personnel and the Reproduction of State Forms; Chapter Two: Analysing an Emergent State:State Actors and a Territorial State Apparatus; Thinking about the State . . .; Medieval and Early Modern Political Theory: Conceptualizing Political Authority; Weber and the Bureaucratic Machine of the Modern State; The Human Geographies of Strategic-Relational State Theory; The Anthropologies of the Networked State |
Bringing It All Together:Analysing an Emergent StateChapter Three: Peopling the Medieval State; A Case of Stating the Obvious?; People and the Feudal State; State Leaders and the Emergence of Medieval State |
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Forms in the British Isles; Local Government and the Validation and Contestation of State Forms; The Medieval State: Different not Worse?; Chapter Four: Embodying Early Modern State Consolidation; Peopling the Central State Apparatus; The Body Politic: JPs and the Political Constitution of England and Wales; Shaping and Steering the Local State |
State Personnel and the Embodiment of Early Modern State ConsolidationChapter Five: The State of High Modernity: the Age of the Inspector; The Nineteenth-Century Revolution in Government; The Age of the Inspector; Leonard Horner and the Regulation of Factory Production; Embodying a Tentative State Consolidation; Chapter Six: Breaking up: People and the Late Modern UK State; The Challenges of Executive Devolution in the UK; New Devolved Organizations, New Organizational Cultures; State Personnel and the 'Joining up'of Regional Governance |
Territorial Identities and the Reproduction of DevolutionDevolution in Prospect; Chapter Seven: Conclusions: Peopling the State; Notes; References; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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People/States/Territories examines the role of state personnel in shaping, and being shaped by, state organizations and territories, and demonstrates how agents have actively contributed to the reproduction and transformation of the British state over the long term. A valuable corrective to recent characterizations of territory as a static and given geographical concept An explication of the political geographies of state reproduction and transformation, through its focus on state territoriality and the variegated character of state power Considerable emp |
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