Impersonal Power : History and Theory of the Bourgeois State

Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.

ISBN: 9781608460298 | 1608460290
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 9/1/2009

Rent

(Recommended)

$26.42

Term

Due

Price

Semester

Dec 12

$27.81

Quarter

Aug 13

$26.42

Short Term

Jul 22

$25.03

*This item is part of an exclusive publisher rental program and requires an additional convenience fee. This fee will be reflected in the shopping bag.
Buy New

Usually Ships in 3-5 Business Days

$35.60

The point of departure of Heide Gerstenberger's pathbreaking work is a critique of the structural-functionalist theory of the state, in both its modernisation theory and materialist variants. Gerstenberger opposes to these a historical-theoretical explanation that proceeds from the long-term structuring effect of concrete social practice

Preface to the English Edition	p. ix
The Rise of Bourgeois States: Preconditions for an Explanation
Miracles, for example	p. 3
States in general, 'bourgeois' states in particular	p. 5
Examples of explanatory approaches	p. 7
False conclusions from structural analysis	p. 28
Pitfalls in historical comparison	p. 31
Advice on reading	p. 36
From Ancien Regime to Bourgeois State: England
'How then did they do it?'	p. 39
English Feudalism: Appropriation by Land Lordship and Force of Arms under Feudally Generalised Royal Power	p. 41
Preconditions of feudal rule	p. 41
Establishment of feudal power structures	p. 44
The Ancien Regime in England	p. 63
Establishment of the ancien regime	p. 63
Contradictory development of the ancien regime	p. 112
The partial revolutionising of the ancien regime	p. 184
The Estate Constitution of Public Power	p. 247
Dissolution of the personal power of the English monarchs	p. 248
Objectification of local generalised power	p. 253
The 'Establishment': transformation of church rule	p. 263
The Revolutionising of the Forms of Rule of the Ancien Regime into Bourgeois State Power	p. 269
Opening up of centralised power of office	p. 274
Separation of local power of office from the privileges of the landed nobility	p. 288
Dissolution of the ancien regime of appropriation	p. 301
From the 'political nation' to a national political public	p. 308
'Pomp and circumstance': the English form of bourgeois state power	p. 317
From Ancien Regime to Bourgeois Society: France
The Development of 'Feudal' Power Relations	p. 325
The rule of the aristocracy	p. 325
Hierarchy and immunity	p. 334
Plague, War and Difference	p. 351
The French Ancien Regime	p. 359
Emergence of the ancien regime	p. 359
Contradictory development of the ancien regime	p. 405
The French Revolution as Event and Structural Change	p. 517
The rise of a revolutionary public	p. 522
The struggle for a new order	p. 536
The revolutionising of ancien-regime forms of rule into bourgeois state power	p. 562
Emperor, king and notables: the French constitution of the bourgeois state	p. 585
Results of the Historical Comparison
The conditions of personal rule in England and France	p. 592
Conditions for the emergence of the ancien regime	p. 600
Contradictory development of the ancient regime	p. 604
From ancien regime to bourgeois state power: reasons for the 'special roads'	p. 617
The Organisation of Generalised Power: A Conceptual Framework for Historical Epochs
Feudalism	p. 632
Ancien regime	p. 645
Bourgeois state	p. 662
Annotated Bibliography	p. 689
Index	p. 791
Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved.

Please wait while the item is added to your bag...

FREE SHIPPING

Rent More, Save More! Use code: BBRENTAL

5% off 1 book, 7% off 2 books, 10% off 3+ books

Impersonal Power : History and Theory of the Bourgeois State

Summary

Author Biography

Table of Contents

Supplemental Materials

FREE SHIPPING

Rent More, Save More! Use code: BBRENTAL

5% off 1 book, 7% off 2 books, 10% off 3+ books

Impersonal Power : History and Theory of the Bourgeois State

Summary

Author Biography

Table of Contents

Supplemental Materials

Digital License