Rhys Jones

People - States - Territories

The Political Geographies of British State Transformation

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

People/States/Territories examines the role of state personnel in shaping, and being shaped by, state organizations and territories. The text develops a conceptual understanding of the state as a continually emerging and contingent territorial organization, which is reproduced, transformed, and contested by state personnel. Rhys Jones demonstrates how the iterative practices of state actors may give meaning and permanence to - or, alternatively, may question and transform - the state apparatus. In addition, Jones highlights how the state's territory is continuously negotiated and translated by those individuals working within this state apparatus, and he illustrates how the identities and practices of state personnel have been influenced by the organizational and territorial networks of power that characterize the state. People/States/Territories views the state, along with the process of state transformation, as the product of a continual - yet temporally specific - interplay between state personnel, state organizations, and state territories. Featuring accessible, relevant case studies of four key periods in the transformation of the state within Britain, this book focuses specifically on: the medieval process of state formation in Wessex, north-west Scotland, and north Wales; the consolidation of state organizations that took place in England and Wales during the early modern period; the peopling of a state- and territorially-organized process of government inspection in the nineteenth century in the north of England; and the territorial, organizational and peopled contexts for the current process of devolution being experienced in the UK.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 162mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 349g
• ISBN-13: 9781405140348
• ISBN-10: 1405140348
• Artikelnr.: 21883629

Autorenporträt

Rhys Jones is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, whose research interests lie in the political geographies of state transformation. His work has appeared in a number of papers published in international social science journals.

Inhaltsangabe

Series Editors' Preface.

Acknowledgements.

1. Introduction: state personnel and the reproduction of stateforms.

2. Analysing an emergent state: state actors and a territorialstate apparatus.

3. Peopling the medieval state.

4. Embodying early modern state consolidation.

5. The state of high modernity: the age of the inspector.

6. Breaking-up: people and the late modern UK state.

7. Conclusions: peopling the state.

Bibliography.

Index

Rezensionen

"Peoples/States/Territories is an extremely important book.It provides a compelling historical analysis of the British stateand will be of interest to geographers, political scientists,historians and sociologists. It is the best account we have on theterritorial foundations of British political authority anddemonstrates the enormous potential of integrating techniques andideas from both historical and political geography."
Mike Heffernan, University of Nottingham

"This is an original and well written book that will addsignificantly to arguments about state formation in the UK. Itbrings a valuable historical perspective to the debate and turns anoverdue spotlight on the role of people in the shaping of stateinstitutions."
Joe Painter, Durham University