A critically acute summary of the main theories about the 'State', from Greekantiquity to the present. The authors highlight the importance of archaeologyto our knowledge of how the first States were formed and how they functioned.They also ask what conditions of social production led to the State arising as the self-interested regulator of social relationships. INDICE: Introduction; I. Theories about the State; 1: The Classical Conception; 2: The State According to Christianity; 3: Renaissance of the State; 4: The Seventeenth Century: Fear and Property; 5: The Eighteenth Century: Lights and Shadows in the State; 6: The Absolute State; 7: The Critique of the State in Marx; 8: Evolutionism and the State; II. Archaeology of the State; 9: Archaeology and Research on the State; 10: Towards a Marxist Archaeology of the State; 11: Epilogue: Theories of the State and the Archaeology of the State: Continuities and Complicity
- ISBN: 978-0-19-955784-4
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 320
- Fecha Publicación: 01/06/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés