Conceptualizing the State - James (Lecturer in Politics Meadowcroft - Bog

This scholarly study of six prominent theorists of the late nineteenth century - Herbert Spencer, Hugh Cecil, Bernard Bosanquet, L.T. Hobhouse, J.A. Hobson, and Ramsay MacDonald - explores the ways in which the notion of the state was invoked in political discourse, and analyses the varying conceptualizations found in their work.