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Auteur:	Thornton, Patricia M.
Titel:	Disciplining the State Virtue, Violence, and State-Making in Modern China
Uitgever:	Harvard University, Asia
ISBN:	9780674025042
Serie:	Harvard East Asian Monographs
Land van oorsprong:	United States
Prijs:	€ 46.78
Verschijningsdatum:	01-05-2007
Bericht:	Langere levertijd (2-3 weken)

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Categorie:	Politics & government
Geogr.gebied:	China
Dewey code:	320.951

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Verschijningsvorm:	Hardback
Paginas:	275
Hoogte mm.:	238
Breedte mm.:	165
Dikte mm.:	24
Gewicht gr.:	524

 

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Scholars of European history assert that war makes states, just as states make war. This study finds that in China, the challenges of governing produced a trajectory of state-building in which the processes of moral and social control were at least as central to state-making as the exercise of coercive power.