The great arch : English state formation as cultural revolution

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The great arch : English state formation as cultural revolution

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

B. Blackwell, 1991

  • : pbk

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"Reprinted with preface, postscript and bibliographical supplement 1991"--T.p. verso

Bibliography: p. [244]-281

Includes index

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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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