States and Nations, Power and Civility

Hallsian Perspectives

Francesco Duina

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University of Toronto Press
11 January 2019

General studies; Institutions & learned societies: general; Material culture; Social interaction; Political science & theory

Civility in national and international politics is under siege. In this volume, twelve distinguished sociologists and historians from North America, Europe, and China reflect on the nature and preservation of civility in and between nation states and empires in a set of geographically and historically wide-ranging chapters.

Civility protects individual self-determination and expression, promotes productive economic activity and wealth, and is central to political stability and peace within and across political communities. Yet power, always concentrated and endemic in nation states and imperial settings, poses great risks to civility. Guided by the perspective of John A. Hall, who has done more to identify and investigate the intricate relationships between states, nations, the power they hold, and civility than any other contemporary social scientist, States and Nations, Power and Civility offers a set of crisp, in-depth investigations regarding the specific mechanisms of civility and how it may be protected.

Edited by: Francesco Duina
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 236mm, Width: 160mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 660g
ISBN: 9781487502379
ISBN 10: 1487502370
Pages: 344
Publication Date: 11 January 2019
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Part One: National Contexts 1. Is America Breaking Apart? The Rise of Donald Trump 2. How Homogenous Need America Be? Nation, Race, and Civility 3. Roadblocks to Civility: Lessons from Turkish Nationalism 4. Urban Civility Defying Political Authoritarianism? Unpacking Turkey’s Reversal of Democracy 5. Under Stress: Civility, Compassion, and National Solidarity – The Refugee Crisis in Germany after 1945 Part Two: International and Comparative Contexts 6. Nationalism and Imperialism as Enemies and Friends: Nation-State Formation and Imperial Projects in the Balkans 7. The Despotic and Infrastructural Powers of Democratic, Autocratic, and Authoritarian Regimes 8. Resistance and Nationalist Violence: A Hallsian Approach to Nation-Building in a Colonial Context 9. Two Communist Revolutions: A Hallsian Comparison of China and Russia 10. Religious Toleration in Pre-Modern Empires 11. Ashoka and Constantine: On Mega-Actors and the Politics of Empires and Religions

Francesco Duina is Professor of Sociology at Bates College and Honorary Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia.

Reviews for States and Nations, Power and Civility: Hallsian Perspectives

"""The Hallsian perspective is one of the most important ones in comparative-historical sociology, and this volume does an exceptional job of not simply describing work that has been done in the past, or by Hall himself, but making numerous contributions in several areas of research inspired by Hall's work. One of the best edited collections that I have read, this volume is well organized, unified, and coherent."" --Jonathan Eastwood, Laurent Boetsch Term Professor of Sociology, Washington and Lee University "" States and Nations, Power and Civility celebrates and investigates the work of Professor John A. Hall, a distinguished figure in the fields of political, comparative, and historical sociology. I think the volume will interest both those interested specifically in the work and ideas of John A. Hall, and more widely those interested in an introduction to the range of approaches to comparative, historical, and political social science."" --Jonathan Hearn, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh ""This is an outstanding volume that engages forcefully with various themes central to John Hall's groundbreaking work on nation-states and the relationship between power and civility."" --Patrick Baert, Department of Sociology, Cambridge University"