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The Great Arch: English State Formation as Cultural Revolution
And Further Essays on State Formation
Series: - Historical Materialism Book Series, Volume: 402
Corrigan and Sayer's pioneering analysis of English state formation from the eleventh to the late nineteenth centuries profoundly challenges conventional wisdoms, showing that state formation is cultural revolution and moral regulation is fundamental to state power. Forty years after its original publication, this classic text of historical sociology continues to shape thinking about "the state" and remains widely cited across the social sciences and humanities. This reprint contains the expanded 1991 edition of The Great Arch, plus nine further essays on capitalism and state formation in England and beyond, and a new introduction by Derek Sayer.
Philip Corrigan (PhD, Durham, 1975) taught at London University Institute of Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, and the University of Exeter. Many of his writings are collected in Social Forms/Human Capacities: Essays in Authority and Difference (1990).
Derek Sayer (PhD, Durham, 1977) is Professor Emeritus at the University of Alberta. His books include The Violence of Abstraction (1986), Capitalism and Modernity (1990), and the award-winning trilogy The Coasts of Bohemia (1998), Prague, Capital of the 20th Century (2013), and Postcards from Absurdistan (2022).
Corrigan and Sayer jointly founded the Journal of Historical Sociology in 1988.
Derek Sayer (PhD, Durham, 1977) is Professor Emeritus at the University of Alberta. His books include The Violence of Abstraction (1986), Capitalism and Modernity (1990), and the award-winning trilogy The Coasts of Bohemia (1998), Prague, Capital of the 20th Century (2013), and Postcards from Absurdistan (2022).
Corrigan and Sayer jointly founded the Journal of Historical Sociology in 1988.
This book is for academic libraries, institutes, specialists, and students across the social sciences and humanities, especially in history, sociology, anthropology, politics and international relations, education, law, and cultural studies.