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.

The Great Arch: English State Formation As Cultural Revolution

History

Derek Sayer

Philip Corrigan

Europe

Blackwell*publishers

The Coasts of Bohemia: A Czech History

<p>In The Winter's Tale, Shakespeare gave the landlocked country of Bohemia a coastline-a famous and, to Czechs, typical example of foreigners' ignorance of the Czech homeland. Although the lands that were once the Kingdom of Bohemia lie at the heart of Europe, Czechs are usually encountered only in the margins of other people's stories. In The Coasts of Bohemia, Derek Sayer reverses this perspective. He presents a comprehensive and long-needed history of the Czech people that is also a remarkably original history of modern Europe, told from its uneasy center. Sayer shows that Bohemia has long been a theater of European conflict. It has been a cradle of Protestantism and a bulwark of the Counter-Reformation; an Austrian imperial province and a proudly Slavic national state; the most easterly democracy in Europe; and a westerly outlier of the Soviet bloc. The complexities of its location have given rise to profound (and often profoundly comic) reflections on the modern condition. Franz Kafka, Jaroslav Hasek, Karel Capek and Milan Kundera are all products of its spirit of place. Sayer describes how Bohemia's ambiguities and contradictions are those of Europe itself, and he considers the ironies of viewing Europe, the West, and modernity from the vantage point of a country that has been too often ignored. The Coasts of Bohemia draws on an enormous array of literary, musical, visual, and documentary sources ranging from banknotes to statues, museum displays to school textbooks, funeral orations to operatic stage-sets, murals in subway stations to censors' indexes of banned books. It brings us into intimate contact with the ever changing details of daily life-the street names and facades of buildings, the heroes figured on postage stamp</p>

Princeton University Press

Book by Philip Corrigan, Harvie Ramsay, Derek Sayer

Socialist Construction and Marxist Theory: Bolshevism and Its Critique

Politics & Social Sciences

Harvie Ramsay

Social Sciences

Monthly Review+press

"SAYER, D.: MARX'S METHOD. IDEOLOGY, SCIENCE AND CRITIQUE IN ""CAPITAL"" [HARDBACK] . HEMEL HEMPSTEAD, HERTS., 1979, xiii 197 p. Encuadernacion original. Nuevo."

Marx's Method: Ideology, Science and Critique in "Capital"

Harvester P

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