Coercion and Consent

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This book examines the key institutional structures and processes of modernity. Combining historical insight with sustained political and social analysis, Hall analyses the form and character of capitalism, war, late development, civil society and the the causes and collapse of socialism and addesses the revival of nationalism and the possibilities of democratization.

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<p><b>John A Hall</b> is Emeritus James McGill Professor of Sociology at McGill University and the author of many books including<i>Powers and Liberties: The Causes and Consequences of the Rise of the West</i>(Blackwell, 1985),<i>Liberalism: Politics, Ideology and the Market</i>(Paladin, 1988),<i>Coercion and Consent: Studies on the Modern State</i> (Polity, 1994) and<i>International Orders:</i><i>Essays, Interpretations and Rejoinders</i> (Polity, 1996).</p>

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