The Birth of Territory

Territory is one of the central political concepts of the modern world and, indeed, functions as the primary way the world is divided and controlled politically. This title provides an account of the emergence of territory within Western political thought. "Stuart Elden's "The Birth of Territory" is a wonderful achievement unmatched in previous writing on place, power, and politics. For it does nothing less than elucidate in remarkable detail a two-thousand-year history of the conditions for the very possibility of its own subject--the idea of territory itself. That is what makes it transcendental history of the first order."--David N. Livingstone, Queen's University Belfast--David N. Livingstone, Queen's University Belfast Zusammenfassung Territory is one of the central political concepts of the modern world and! indeed! functions as the primary way the world is divided and controlled politically. This title provides an account of the emergence of territory within Western political thought.

Product details

• Authors: Stuart Elden, Stuart (Durham University) Elden
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.10.2013
• EAN: 9780226202563
• ISBN: 978-0-226-20256-3
• No. of pages: 488
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 238 mm x 35 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Geopolitics, Political science & theory, Political science and theory