Public Interest and State Legitimation

ISBN-13: 9781009334556 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 320 str.

Wenkai (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) He

Opis

Suggests that public interest was vital to early modern state legitimacy and political reform in Western Europe and East Asia.

Recenzje

'Wenkai He draws on his wide reading in Chinese, Japanese, and English historical literatures to engage with social science debates about early modern state formation, as both a common and a pluriform process. Redirecting attention from war and coercion to infrastructural and welfare provision, he looks set to ignite exciting interdisciplinary conversations.' Joanna Innes, Emeritus Professor of Modern History, Oxford University, and Senior Research Fellow, Somerville College

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I: 1. Legitimacy and resilience of the early modern state; 2. State-society collaboration against subsistence crisis; 3. Financing public infrastructure; 4. The negotiation of state and society over redress of grievances; Part II. Prologue: Limits to Early Modern State Resilience: 5. A political 'great divergence': England (1640–1780), Japan (1853–1895) and China (1840–1911); Conclusion: toward a contextualized comparative historical analysis.