ISBN:
9004130276
,
9789004130272
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xii, 803 p)
,
25 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Historical materialism book series v. 15
Uniform Title:
Subjektlose Gewalt. 〈engl.〉
Parallel Title:
Print version Impersonal Power : History and Theory of the Bourgeois State
DDC:
305.5/20941
Keywords:
Power (Social sciences) History
;
Elite (Social sciences) History
;
Power (Social sciences) History
;
Elite (Social sciences) History
Abstract:
In this volume. Heide Gerstenberger investigates the development of bourgeois state power by on the one hand proposing a critique of different variants of the structural-functionalist theory of the state and on the other hand analysing the examples of England and France. The central thesis of the work is that the bourgeois form of capitalist state power arose only where capitalist societies developed out of state structures that were already rationalised
Description / Table of Contents:
Preface to the English Edition; Part One The Rise of Bourgeois States: Preconditions for an Explanation; 1. Miracles, for example; 2. States in general, 'bourgeois' states in particular; 3. Examples of explanatory approaches; 4. False conclusions from structural analysis; 5. Pitfalls in historical comparison; 6. Advice on reading; Part Two From Ancien Régime to Bourgeois State: England; 'How then did they do it?'; Chapter One English Feudalism: Appropriation by Land Lordship and Force of Arms under Feudally Generalised Royal Power; Chapter Two The Ancien Régime in England
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter Three The Estate Constitution of Public PowerChapter Four The Revolutionising of the Forms of Rule of the Ancien Régime into Bourgeois State Power; Part Three From Ancien Régime to Bourgeois Society: France; Chapter One The Development of 'Feudal' Power Relations; Chapter Two Plague, War and Difference; Chapter Three The French Ancien Régime; Chapter Four The French Revolution as Event and Structural Change; Part Four Results of the Historical Comparison; 1. The conditions of personal rule in England and France; 2. Conditions for the emergence of the ancien régime
Description / Table of Contents:
3. Contradictory development of the ancien régime4. From ancien régime to bourgeois state power: reasons for the 'special roads'; Part Five The Organisation of Generalised Power: A Conceptual Framework for Historical Epochs; 1. Feudalism; 2. Ancien régime; 3. Bourgeois state; Annotated Bibliography; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [689]-789) and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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