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The conquest of death : violence and the birth of the modern English state
Title
The conquest of death : violence and the birth of the modern English state / Matthew Lockwood.
ISBN
9780300227864 (ebook) :
Publication
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2018.
Physical Description
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white)
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Previously issued in print: 2017.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 8, 2017).
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Summary
'The Conquest of Death' considers the concepts of violence and state power far more broadly and holistically than previous accounts of state growth by intertwining the national and the local, the formal and the informal to illustrate how the management of incidental acts of violence and justice was as important to the monopolization of violence as the creation of the machinery of warfare. It reveals how the creation and operation of everyday bureaucracy built systems of power far exceeding its original intent and allowed a greater centralized surveillance of daily life than ever before.
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Yale scholarship online.
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Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 05, 2018
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience
Specialized.
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