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Klappentext The Wealth of States is the first sustained analysis of the overlap between historical sociology and international relations. Zusammenfassung The Wealth of States is the first sustained analysis of the overlap between historical sociology and international relations. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. A sociology of international relations and an international relations of sociology; Part I. Case Studies in Structural Economic Change: States and Trade Regime Changes, 1870-1913; 2. Protectionism in Imperial Germany: moderate state capacity and indirect taxation; 3. Protectionism and industrialism in Tsarist Russia: weak state capacity and indirect taxation; 4. Free trade versus protectionism in liberal Britain: strong state capacity and the conflict over taxation; 5. Protectionism and indirect taxation in federal states: USA, Canada, Australia and Switzerland; Part II. Theorizing International and National Structural Economic and Political Change: 6. A sociological theory of international economic change: the transition to tariff protectionism, 1870-1913; 7. State capacity in the international/national vortex: a non-realist theory of state power and international politics.
