Author	Meadowcroft, James
Title	Conceptualizing the state [electronic resource] : innovation and dispute in British political thought 1880-1914 / James Meadowcroft
Imprint	Oxford : Clarendon, 1995
Connect to	http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198206019.001.0001
Descript	1 online resource (251 p.)

Drawing on the work of six prominent theorists of the late 19th century - Herbert Spencer, Hugh Cecil, Bernard Bosanquet, L.T. Hobhouse, J.A. Hobson, and Ramsay MacDonald - this study explores the ways in which the notion of the state was invoked in British political discourse

1. Political science -- Great Britain -- History
2. State
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