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AbstractTaking as its starting‐point, Philip Abrams’ celebrated perception (1988) that the state is an ‘ideological artefact … historically constructed', this essay seeks an explanation of the unrivalled longevity and durability of the English state in the fact that it was the first European political organism to exploit with complete success the model of obligatory coherence supplied by the Old Testament in the history of Israel and its relations with its Maker. This model had been applied to the early history of Anglo‐Saxon Christianity by the Venerable Bede (731) in a work of unexampled literary power. The Anglo‐Saxons’ subsequent experience of the near‐obliteration of their Christian polity by pagan Vikings lent the Biblical and Bedan messages a particular point. King Alfred and his dynasty were thus provided with an ideological blueprint which meant that their otherwise by no means unusual early medieval hegemony could command the allegiance of potential dissidents in a way that none of its counterparts were ultima

ISSN:0952-1909    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6443.1994.tb00060.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractMapping productivist logic derived from the history of capitalism onto the rest of the world blocks the view of alternative systems, and their internal logic. Theories of the capitalist state can capture neither the nature of the non‐capitalist states nor those states’ social and economic relations. Our alternative formulation of the Ottoman state disassociates class, property, and distribution from the sphere of production and associates them with the state. Thereby, Ottoman history sheds its petrified cloak and the Ottoman state comes to life; motion, change and class conflict are things Ottoman once ag

ISSN:0952-1909    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6443.1994.tb00061.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThis article explores the functioning of the state‐system and the emergence of a particular state‐idea in early twentieth century Ecuador by analysing relations between Indians and the state in labor recruitment for municipal public works construction in the Andean region of Alausí. The idea of the state as a dispenser of equal justice was successfully called on by indigenous peons in their resistance to forced labor recruitment by local officials of the state. The enhancement of this idea of the state simultaneously undermined the functioning of the state‐system at the local level, and legitimized central state aut

ISSN:0952-1909    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6443.1994.tb00062.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThis article explores the role of othering and the social sciences in Italian State formation through a historical sociology of the state. The mapping of particular forms of others in popular imagination including ‘vagrants’,‘beggars’, and ‘gypsies’, in the nineteenth century resonates with contemporary state projects which seek to document and identify new “alien” newcomer groups. The official document, an integral part of a technology of state power constitutes a kind of “cosmology”, with whole social orders, classes and others codified in each line entry. The state designates absolute definitions of places, bodies and things. In 1885 the first medical survey of Italy sought to map out the “medical geography” of the nation, such practices laid the ground work for conceptions of normalcy and difference. The definition of the ‘average citizen’ is an integral part of the construction of State as Cosmos. Difference and its mapping in its interplay with “normalcy” defines in many ways, the State. yet there can be no taken‐for‐granted submission of the subaltern classes to this state cosmos, nor to the practices of the social sci

ISSN:0952-1909    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6443.1994.tb00063.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractFrom the Alamo to Sea World, the San Antonio tourist experience reiterates an historical and ethnic narrative that positions the Anglo‐American subject in relation to the Mexican as ‘other’. Like the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) of 1986, this strategy of definition and containment is inseparable from profound ambivalences about the possibility of effectively ‘naturalizing’ difference. In ‘remembering the Alamo’, the tourist is faced with the possibility of dis‐integration and an inversion of the colonizer/coloniz

ISSN:0952-1909    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6443.1994.tb00064.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY