Coercion and Consent Studies on the Modern

This book examines the key institutional structures and processes of modernity. Combining historical insight with sustained political and social analysis, Hall analyses the form and character of capitalism, war, late development, civil society and the the causes and collapse of socialism and addesses the revival of nationalism and the possibilities of democratization.

John Hall is the author of many books including Powers and Liberties: The Causes and Consequences of the Rise of the West (Blackwell, 1985), States in History (editor, Blackwell, 1986), Liberalism: Politics, Ideology and the Market (Paladin, 1988).

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Capstones and Organisms	p. 1
A Curious Stability?	p. 27
An Absolute Collapse	p. 50
State Power and Patterns of Late Development	p. 76
Consolidations of Democracy	p. 99
Nationalisms, Classified and Explained	p. 124
Will the United States Decline as Did Britain?	p. 149
The Weary Titan? Arms and Empire, 1870-1913	p. 187
Conclusion: The State of Post-modernism	p. 206
Index	p. 214
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