The Imported State: The Westernization of Political Order (Mestizo Spaces/Espaces Metisses)

by Bertrand Badie (Author), Claudia Royal (Translator)

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  Paperback
  2000

  $43.48

  This book traces the rise of the modern state in post-Enlightenment Europe and its spread to the remainder of the world, especially colonial and postcolonial societies. It shows how non-Western cultures invented their own practices of the state, thereby transforming the original model.