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The Hidden History of Crime, Corruption, and States (Hardcover, New)
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The Hidden History of Crime, Corruption, and States (Hardcover, New)
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Renowned historical sociologist Charles Tilly wrote many years ago
that "banditry, piracy, gangland rivalry, policing, and war-making
all belong on the same continuum." This volume pursues the idea by
revealing how lawbreakers and lawmakers have related to one another
on the shadowy terrains of power over wide stretches of time and
space. Illicit activities and forces have been more important in
state building and state maintenance than conventional histories
have acknowledged. Covering vast chronological and global terrain,
this book traces the contested and often overlapping boundaries
between these practices in such very different polities as the
pre-modern city-states of Europe, the modern nation-states of
France and Japan, the imperial power of Britain in India and North
America, Africa's and Southeast Asia's postcolonial states, and the
emerging postmodern regional entity of the Mediterranean Sea.
Indeed, the contemporary explosion of transnational crime raises
the question of whether or not the relationship of illicit to licit
practices may be mutating once more, leading to new political forms
beyond the nation-state.
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