Wenkai He

Public Interest and State Legitimation

Early Modern England, Japan, and China

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Safeguarding public interest was vital to early modern state legitimacy in Western Europe and East Asia. Wenkai He identifies similar patterns in state-society interactions surrounding public goods provision and explores how conflicts over public interest led to calls for fundamental political change and to modern representative politics"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 603g
• ISBN-13: 9781009334518
• ISBN-10: 1009334514
• Artikelnr.: 68100774

Autorenporträt

Wenkai He is Associate Professor in the Division of Social Science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Inhaltsangabe

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.