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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.

Disciplining the State

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    A Hardback by Patricia M. Thornton

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      Publisher: Harvard University, Asia Center
      Publication Date: 01/05/2007
      ISBN13: 9780674025042, 978-0674025042
      ISBN10: 0674025040

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      Book Synopsis
      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.

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