دانلود کتاب ایالت ها و شهروندان – تاریخچه، تئوری، چشم انداز ها States and Citizens: History, Theory, Prospects

Contributions by a distinguished pan-European team of authors ensure this study's value to students and teachers of the history of ideas, political theory and European studies. Coverage of the Western European experience is wide-ranging in this survey of perceptions of the state, its history, and prospects in the contemporary world. The greatest post-colonial democratic state, India, is also discussed as an important comparative example. ------- Contents: -- Contributors – Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I. States and citizens: setting the scene -- 1 States and the freedom of citizens -- 2 The concept of the state: the sovereignty of a fiction -- 3 Citizens and the state: retrospect and prospect -- Part II. The medieval background -- 4 Freedom, law, and die medieval state -- 5 States, cities, and citizens in the later Middle Ages -- Part III. Early-modern developments -- 6 The state and its rivals in early-modern Europe -- 7 The development of the idea of citizens' rights -- Part IV. Citizens, states, and modernity -- 8 Enlightenment's differences, today's identities -- 9 Citizen and slate under die French Revolution -- 10 A state of contradictions: the post-colonial state in India -- Part V. After the modem slate -- 11 The state and its critics: is there a post-modern challenge? -- 12 Citizenship and equality of the sexes: the French model in question -- 13 States, citizens, and the environment -- Index