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Fils d'une famille de petite noblesse appartenant à la paroisse nord de Brookfield, dans le Massachusetts, Benjamin Gilbert se révèle, à travers son journal, un jeune homme tapageur, assez représentatif de l'époque révolutionnaire et du XVIIIe siècle. Dans les camps établis en bordure de l'Hudson, il ne participait jamais aux assemblées religieuses, mais il avait observé les rites séculiers de la franc-maçonnerie qui se tenaient sous la tente du capitaine Daniel Shays. Après avoir démissionné de l'armée à la suite d'une querelle avec son commandant, Gilbert note en détail ses allées et venues dans le nord de Brookfield pendant huit mois, entre 1780 et 1782. Son journal fait état d'un rythme répétitif des activités : le travail au début de la semaine était suivi de réunions nocturnes avec des voisins, des amis, des parents et consacrées aux cartes, à la boisson et à la danse. Pourtant, significativement, et à l'opposé de ses habitudes des camps militaires, Gilbert participe chaque dimanche, avec sa famille paternelle, aux assemblées du matin et de l'après-midi et, en février 1780, il suit la procession des funérailles de Madame Samuel Hinckley, « jusqu'à la tombe, dans la paroisse sud ».

Featuring a sweeping array of essays from scholars of state formation and development, this book presents an overview of approaches to studying the history of the state. Focusing on the question of state formation, this volume takes a particular look at the beginnings, structures, and constant reforming of state power. Not only do the contributors draw upon both modernist and postmodernist theoretical perspectives, they also address the topic from a global standpoint, examining states from all areas of the world. In their diverse and thorough exploration of state building, the authors cross the theoretical, geographic, and chronological boundaries that traditionally shape this field in order to rethink the customary macro and micro approaches to the study of state building and make the case for global histories of both pre-modern and modern state formations

Between the end of the Revolution and the Age of Jackson, thousands of localities within the young American nation struggled to extend the political and social rights embedded in Enlightenment ideals. Would the governed freely offer their consent? Would all citizens enjoy equal access to civil institutions?

On the person of the state / Quentin Skinner -- The state as a social relation / Bob Jessop -- Was there any such thing as a non-modern state? / Greg Anderson -- Comparative perspectives and early states revisited / Rita P. Wright -- (Re)Introducing the state on the medieval Swahili coast / Chapurukha M. Kusimba -- Renaissance states of mind / Michael Martoccio -- Bringing the sarkar back in : translating patrimonialism and the state in early modern and early colonial India / Nicholas J. Abbott -- Revolutionary state formation : the origins of the strong American state / William J. Novak and Steven Pincus -- The founding of non-democratic states / Richard Bensel -- Empire as state : the Roman case / Clifford Ando -- Weights and measures and state formation : the view from the early American republic / Stephen Mihm -- Mapping power : the shape of the state in the post-Civil War American South / Greg P. Downs -- To bee or not to bee : the co-production of modern science and the modern state / John F.M. Clark -- Taxes and the two faces of the state since the eighteenth century / Yannis D. Kotsonis -- Regimes and repertoires of statebuilding : the two Chinas and regime consolidation in the early 1950s / Julia C. Strauss -- The Mesopotamian citizen conceptualized : affect, speech & perception / Seth Richardson -- Military mobilization and the experience of living with the Ming state / Michael Szonyi -- Ethnicity and Power in early modern Europe and Asia / Victor Lieberman -- Patriliny and modern states in the Middle East / Diane King -- Social service, convivialismo, and hegemony in Colombia / Rebecca Tally -- Idian affirmative action and the postcolonial state / Anupama Rao -- Conclusion : notes toward a global synthesis / John L. Brooke and Julia C. Strauss