{"product_id":"public-interest-and-state-legitimation-early-modern-england-japan-and-china-hardback-9781009334518","title":"Public Interest and State Legitimation; Early Modern England, Japan, and China (Hardback) 9781009334518","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003ePublic Interest and State Legitimation\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eEarly Modern England, Japan, and China\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSuggests that public interest was vital to early modern state legitimacy and political reform in Western Europe and East Asia.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eWenkai He (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781009334518, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 19 October 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e324 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.8 x 2.2 cm, 0.61 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Wenkai He draws on his wide reading in Chinese, Japanese, and English historical literatures to engage with social science debates about early modern state formation, as both a common and a pluriform process. Redirecting attention from war and coercion to infrastructural and welfare provision, he looks set to ignite exciting interdisciplinary conversations.' Joanna Innes, Emeritus Professor of Modern History, Oxford University, and Senior Research Fellow, Somerville College\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHow were state formation and early modern politics shaped by the state's proclaimed obligation to domestic welfare? Drawing on a wide range of historical scholarship and primary sources, this book demonstrates that a public interest-based discourse of state legitimation was common to early modern England, Japan, and China. This normative platform served as a shared basis on which state and society could negotiate and collaborate over how to attain good governance through providing public goods such as famine relief and infrastructural facilities. The terms of state legitimacy opened a limited yet significant political space for the ruled. Through petitioning and protests, subordinates could demand that the state fulfil its publicly proclaimed duty and redress welfare grievances. Conflicts among diverse dimensions of public interest mobilized cross-regional and cross-sectoral collective petitions; justified by the same norms of state legitimacy, these petitions called for fundamental political reforms and transformed the nature of politics.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e Part I: 1. Legitimacy and resilience of the early modern state\u003cbr\u003e 2. State-society collaboration against subsistence crisis\u003cbr\u003e 3. Financing public infrastructure\u003cbr\u003e 4. The negotiation of state and society over redress of grievances\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Prologue: Limits to Early Modern State Resilience: 5. A political 'great divergence': England (1640–1780), Japan (1853–1895) and China (1840–1911)\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: toward a contextualized comparative historical analysis.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Sociology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Sociology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Sociology%20%5BJHB%5D%22\"\u003eJHB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52413981393176,"sku":"9781009334518","price":73.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781009334518i.jpg?v=1784333707","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/public-interest-and-state-legitimation-early-modern-england-japan-and-china-hardback-9781009334518","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}