Cages of Reason: The Rise of the Rational State in France, Japan, the United States, and Great Britain

by Bernard S. Silberman

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Blending political, historical, and sociological analysis, Bernard S. Silberman offers a provocative explanation for the bureaucratic development of the modern state. The study of modern state bureaucracy has its origins in Max Weber's analysis of the modes of social domination, which Silberman takes as his starting point.

Whereas Weber contends that the administration of all modern nation-states would eventually converge in one form characterized...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0226757374

ISBN13:9780226757377

Release Date:June 1993

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:495 Pages

Weight:1.45 lbs.

Dimensions:1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"

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