"States and Citizens: History, Theory, Prospects" by Quentin Skinner, Bo Stråth (Repost)

Contributions by a distinguished pan-European team of authors ensure this study's value to students and teachers of the history of ideas, political theory and European studies.

Coverage of the Western European experience is wide-ranging in this survey of perceptions of the state, its history, and prospects in the contemporary world.
The greatest post-colonial democratic state, India, is also discussed as an important comparative example.

Contents
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I. States and citizens: setting the scene
1 States and the freedom of citizens
2 The concept of the state: the sovereignty of a fiction
3 Citizens and the state: retrospect and prospect
Part II. The medieval background
4 Freedom, law, and die medieval state
5 States, cities, and citizens in the later Middle Ages
Part III. Early-modern developments
6 The state and its rivals in early-modern Europe
7 The development of the idea of citizens' rights
Part IV. Citizens, states, and modernity
8 Enlightenment's differences, today's identities
9 Citizen and slate under die French Revolution
10 A state of contradictions: the post-colonial state in India
Part V. After the modem slate
11 The state and its critics: is there a post-modern challenge?
12 Citizenship and equality of the sexes: the French model in question
13 States, citizens, and the environment
Index