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Thomas Hobbes laid the theoretical groundwork of the nation-state in Leviathan, his tough-minded 1651 treatise. Charles Maier's Leviathan 2.0 updates this classic to explain how modern statehood took shape between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, before it unraveled into the political uncertainty that persists today.

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Maier is particularly good on the ways that improved communications and transportation could facilitate new forms of state power, but also help to provoke revolution everywhere from Mexico to China to Russia.
-- David A. Bell * New Republic *

Leviathan 2.0

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    A Paperback by Charles S. Maier


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      Publisher: Harvard University Press
      Publication Date: 4/21/2014 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780674281325, 978-0674281325
      ISBN10: 0674281322
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      International relations Political science and theory

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Thomas Hobbes laid the theoretical groundwork of the nation-state in Leviathan, his tough-minded 1651 treatise. Charles Maier's Leviathan 2.0 updates this classic to explain how modern statehood took shape between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, before it unraveled into the political uncertainty that persists today.

      Trade Review
      Maier is particularly good on the ways that improved communications and transportation could facilitate new forms of state power, but also help to provoke revolution everywhere from Mexico to China to Russia.
      -- David A. Bell * New Republic *

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