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Taming Modernity : = The Rise of the Modern State in Early Industrial Manchester.

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Title/Author:	Taming Modernity :/
Reminder of title:	The Rise of the Modern State in Early Industrial Manchester.
Author:	Beattie, Ian.
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Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-02, Section: B.
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Taming Modernity : = The Rise of the Modern State in Early Industrial Manchester.
Beattie, Ian.

Taming Modernity :The Rise of the Modern State in Early Industrial Manchester. - 1 online resource (469 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-02, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--McGill University (Canada), 2021.

Includes bibliographical references

Why do we have a modern state? This big sociological question is the departure point for this thesis. In its pages, however, the issue is distilled down to a discrete historical inquiry, one that might be subjected to an archivally rooted methodology: what were the conditions in which "modernity" in the state first arose, what were the social pressures fostering this transformation, and what were the structural dimensions of modern society that enabled this state form's institutionalization and reproduction? Returning to the first historical society in which the modern state appeared - nineteenth-century Britain - this thesis finds that the process of industrialization, and more specifically, industrial urbanization, must be considered the first and necessary cause of state modernization. The task is therefore to understand why, in a concrete and granular fashion, the distinctive social effects of industrialization should promote an interventionist, expansionist state form, one wielding immense infrastructural power. This thesis approaches this task in the form of a case study. It is not, however, a study of a typical or "representative" case, but of an exemplar: early nineteenth-century Manchester, the world's first and most concentrated experiment in industrial urbanization. Using a cross-sectional variety of archival sources - both the records of the state itself, but also those that allow us to see the state from the outside, from "below" - this thesis descends to street level to ask when expansionist and interventionist patterns first appeared in the local governance structures of industrial Manchester and what social dynamics fostered their implementation and perpetuation. It finds that "class", in the broad sense of overlapping cultural and economic patterns, and more particularly class tensions and even conflicts must be considered crucial structuring dynamics in modern state formation. Departing from idealist models, however, it also insists that in the final analysis, no particular class "won" in the social struggles surrounding state modernization; indeed, the modern state itself is not a completed and stable project. Rather, the story of the modern state is the story of the establishment of a monopoly by one particular system of social authority and mediation - the state - as the legitimate arena for political contestation and arbitration, a process which in Manchester entailed a turn toward the state by multiple social groups, possessing varying degrees of social power. It is the perpetuation of a series of imbalances and social inequalities - a disequilibrium, rather than an equilibrium - that explains the continuing strength and significance of this arena in the societies in which it has taken hold.

Electronic reproduction.
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ProQuest,
2023

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798841570790Subjects--Topical Terms:

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520 $a Pourquoi l'Etat moderne existe-t-il? Cette grande question sociologique est le point de depart de cette these. Dans ses pages, cependant, la question se resume a une enquete historique circonscrite, qui pourrait etre soumise a une methodologie d'archives : quelles etaient les conditions dans lesquelles la « modernite » de l'Etat est apparue pour la premiere fois, quelles ont ete les pressions sociales qui ont favorise cette transformation, et quelles etaient les dimensions structurelles de la societe moderne qui ont permis l'institutionnalisation et la reproduction de cette forme d'Etat ? En revenant a la premiere societe historique dans laquelle l'Etat moderne est apparu - la Grande-Bretagne du XIXe siecle - cette these demontre que le processus d'industrialisation, et plus precisement, l'urbanisation industrielle, doit etre considere comme la cause premiere et necessaire de la modernisation de l'Etat. Il s'agit donc de comprendre, de maniere concrete et granulaire, pourquoi les effets sociaux de l'industrialisation ont favorise une forme d'Etat interventionniste et expansionniste, detenant un immense pouvoir infrastructurel. Cette these entreprend cette tache sous la forme d'une etude de cas. Il ne s'agit cependant pas d'une etude d'un cas typique ou « representatif », mais exemplaire : Manchester du debut du XIXe siecle, la premiere et la plus concentree des experiences d'urbanisation industrielle au monde. En utilisant une variete de sources d'archives - les archives de l'Etat lui-meme, mais aussi celles qui permettent de voir l'Etat de l'exterieur, « d'en bas » - cette these descend au niveau de la rue pour demander quand les instincts expansionnistes et interventionnistes sont apparus pour la premiere fois dans les structures de gouvernance locale du Manchester industriel, et quelles dynamiques sociales ont favorise leur realisation et leur perpetuation. Il trouve que la « classe » - au sens large du chevauchement des motifs culturels et economiques - et plus particulierement les tensions et conflits de classe, doivent etre considerees comme des dynamiques structurantes dans la formation de l'Etat moderne. Or, en s'ecartant des modeles idealistes, il insiste egalement sur le fait qu'en derniere analyse, aucune classe particuliere n'a « gagne » dans les luttes sociales entourant la modernisation de l'Etat ; en effet, l'Etat moderne lui-meme n'est pas un projet acheve et stable. L'histoire de l'Etat moderne est plutot l'histoire de l'etablissement d'un monopole par un systeme particulier de mediation et d'autorite sociale - l'Etat - en tant qu'arene legitime de la contestation et de l'arbitrage politiques. A Manchester, ce processus a consiste en un tour vers l'Etat par de multiples groupes sociaux, possedant des degres differents de pouvoir social. C'est la perpetuation d'une serie d'inegalites sociales - un desequilibre plutot qu'un equilibre - qui explique la force et l'importance continues de cette arene dans les societes ou elle s'est implantee.
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