{"product_id":"stateculture-9780801436734","title":"StateCulture","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat impact does culture have on state-formation and public policy? How do states affect national and local cultures? How is the ongoing cultural turn in theory reshaping our understanding of the Western and modernizing states, long viewed as the...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis important volume... seeks to revitalize the study of state formation by allowing it to partake of the fruits of the cultural turn. In its ambitions this collection bears a strong resemblance to Peter Evans, Dietrick Rueschemayer, and Theda Skocpol's \u003ci\u003eBringing the State Back In\u003c\/i\u003e of 1985, and its impact should be equally great... The richness of this volume's contributions should provide inspiration to all those who seek to reinvigorate the study of the state and state formation.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Thomas Ertman, New York University * American Journal of Sociology *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book... is a serious and substantive addition to the literature, not only of states but also of cultures and economics.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Robert K. Schaeffer, Kansas State University * Contemporary Sociology *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection of essays examines the process of state formation in light of the ongoing 'cultural turn' in the social sciences....Such work is particularly useful to historians of education....Although the essays collected in \u003ci\u003eState Formation after the Cultural Turn \u003c\/i\u003edo not focus directly on the history of education, they can be used as a source of conceptual inspiration. They can also be read as a map of the social sciences: providing useful coordinates of our own position, clarifying the differences between relevant writers and approaches, and noting the direction of particularly useful interventions....This is a useful book deserving a wide readership.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Pavla Miller, RMIT Melbourne * History of Education Review *","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405124870487,"sku":"9780801436734","price":97.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/stateculture-9780801436734","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}