The catalyst for this book is the fact that noted sociologist
Charles Tilly, upon his death in 2008, left one completed chapter
of an unfinished manuscript entitled Cities, States, and Trust
Networks, examining the relationships between cities and
nation-states over the sweep of history, and in particular the role
of trust networks in mediating this relationship. Though this was
the catalyst, the book serves a broader purpose: to survey recent
frontier work on cities, nation-states, and the relations between
the two in historical and contemporary perspective.
Essays in the book will address four main themes: city-state
relations, trust networks and commitment, democracy and inequality,
and the importance of historical legacies in shaping state
structures, practices, and capacities. They will be global in
scope, with research on the United States, Latin America, Europe,
Asia, and Africa; a number of the pieces will be comparative. They
will also be interdisciplinary, including works of geography,
history, political science, sociology, urban planning.
The book addresses several confluent needs of readers. One is to
simply update themes addressed in earlier edited work such as
"Bringing the State Back In "(1985). A second is to bring together
current thinking about cities on the one hand and nation-states on
the other, literatures that are often segregated from each other. A
third is to perform those two purposes in a way that is global in
scope and combines both historical and current analyses, to pull
together insights from the full range of human experience.
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