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The Hidden History of Crime, Corruption, and States - Renate Bridenthal

The Hidden History of Crime, Corruption, and States

By: Renate Bridenthal (Editor)

Paperback | 1 June 2017

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Renowned historical sociologist Charles Tilly wrote many years ago that "banditry, piracy, gangland rivalry, policing, and war-making all belong on the same continuum." This volume pursues the idea by revealing how lawbreakers and lawmakers have related to one another on the shadowy terrains of power over wide stretches of time and space. Illicit activities and forces have been more important in state building and state maintenance than conventional histories have acknowledged. Covering vast chronological and global terrain, this book traces the contested and often overlapping boundaries between these practices in such very different polities as the pre-modern city-states of Europe, the modern nation-states of France and Japan, the imperial power of Britain in India and North America, Africa's and Southeast Asia's postcolonial states, and the emerging postmodern regional entity of the Mediterranean Sea. Indeed, the contemporary explosion of transnational crime raises the question of whether or not the relationship of illicit to licit practices may be mutating once more, leading to new political forms beyond the nation-state.

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"... [an] excellent collection of essays, The Hidden History of Crime, Corruption, and Statesis a captivating and informative read that demonstrates the possibilities inherent in a broad approach to any subject." ? Canadian Journal of History

"The publication of this work is timely. Current news about international criminal networks and government?corruption raises questions about the historical dimensions of present-day concerns... More than chronicling such movement, however, one of this volume's strengths lies in its efforts to cross conceptual boundaries... The contributors, representing such disciplines as history, political science, and criminology, further push boundaries between economics and politics, structure and agency, public and private, as well as between historical facts and narrative discourses that construct expedient realities... address implications for sovereignty, democracy, the control of violence, and economic inequalities." ? American Historical Review

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