The great arch : English state formation as cultural revolution

Author(s)

• Corrigan, Philip Richard D.
• Sayer, Derek
• Aylmer, G. E.

Bibliographic Information

The great arch : English state formation as cultural revolution

Philip Corrigan and Derek Sayer ; with a foreword by G.E. Aylmer

Basil Blackwell, 1985

• : pbk

Note

Bibliography: p. [233]-264

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This is one of the classic texts of historical sociology and will be welcomed by all students of modern state formation. Corrigan and Sayer's illuminating analysis of the development of the English state from the eleventh to the late nineteenth centuries profoundly challenges conventional wisdoms, showing that state formation is cultural revolution, and moral regulation is fundamental to state power.

Table of Contents

• "A remarkably centralized country" - state formation in Medieval England
• "This realm of England is an Empire" - the revolution of the 1530s
• an elect nation - the Elizabethan consolidation
• mortall God enthroned - one bourgeois revolution (of many)
• from theatre to machine - "old curruption"
• "the working class question" - "Society" and society
• "There is, above all, an agency".

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Details

• NCID: BA00537903
• ISBN:
  • 0631140549
  • 0631140557
• LCCN: 85007409
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York, N.Y.
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 268 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : JN216
  • DC19 : 941.081
  • NDC8 : 233.06
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 19th century -- Addresses, essays, lectures
  • LCSH : Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Addresses, essays, lectures
  • LCSH : Social classes -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century -- Addresses, essays, lectures