Coercion and Consent: Studies on the Modern State

by John A. Hall

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.

240 pages, Paperback

First published October 27, 1994