LEADER 05119nam 22008533u 450 001 9910830063603321 005 20230725041143.0 010 $a1-4443-9947-0 010 $a0-470-71284-8 035 $a(CKB)1000000000687411 035 $a(EBL)694270 035 $a(OCoLC)811493837 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000219539 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11175845 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000219539 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10228924 035 $a(PQKB)10455208 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC694270 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000687411 100 $a20130418d2011|||| u|| | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPeople - States - Territories$b[electronic resource] $eThe Political Geographies of British State Transformation 210 $aChicester $cWiley$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (417 p.) 225 1 $aRGS-IBG Book Series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4051-4033-X 327 $aCover; 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 327 $aBringing 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 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 327 $aState 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 327 $aTerritorial Identities and the Reproduction of DevolutionDevolution in Prospect; Chapter Seven: Conclusions: Peopling the State; Notes; References; Index 330 $aPeople/States/Territories examines the role of state personnel in shaping, and being shaped by, state organizations and territories, and demonstrates how agents have actively contributed to the reproduction and transformation of the British state over the long term. A valuable corrective to recent characterizations of territory as a static and given geographical concept An explication of the political geographies of state reproduction and transformation, through its focus on state territoriality and the variegated character of state power Considerable emp 410 0$aRGS-IBG Book Series 606 $aGreat Britain - Politics and government 606 $aGreat Britain -- Politics and government 606 $aLocal government - Great Britain 606 $aLocal government -- Great Britain 606 $aProfessional employees in government - Great Britain 606 $aProfessional employees in government -- Great Britain 606 $aState, The 606 $aState, The 606 $aProfessional employees in government$zGreat Britain 606 $aLocal government$zGreat Britain 606 $aState, The 606 $aGovernment - Europe$2HILCC 606 $aGovernment - Non-U.S$2HILCC 606 $aLaw, Politics & Government$2HILCC 615 4$aGreat Britain - Politics and government. 615 4$aGreat Britain -- Politics and government. 615 4$aLocal government - Great Britain. 615 4$aLocal government -- Great Britain. 615 4$aProfessional employees in government - Great Britain. 615 4$aProfessional employees in government -- Great Britain. 615 4$aState, The. 615 4$aState, The. 615 0$aProfessional employees in government 615 0$aLocal government 615 0$aState, The 615 7$aGovernment - Europe 615 7$aGovernment - Non-U.S. 615 7$aLaw, Politics & Government 676 $a320.941 700 $aJones$b Rhys$0479540 801 0$bAU-PeEL 801 1$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAU-PeEL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910830063603321 996 $aPeople - States - Territories$94117005 997 $aUNINA