Contention and Trust in Cities and States

Introduction

Historicism and historical legacies: contingency and endurance

State-making, unmaking, and remaking

City-state relations

Trust networks and commitment

Democracy and inequality

Concluding remarks

References

Contents

Contributors

Cities, states, and trust networks: chapter 1 of Cities and States in World History

A look across human history

Trust networks

The Silk Road

Appendix: Contents as planned in 2008 for Cities and States in World History

References

Part I Historicism and Historical Legacies

SPOTLIGHT: Historicism, theory, and method

References

Is there a moral economy of state formation? Religious minorities and repertoires of regime integration in the Middle East and Western Europe, 600–1614

Capacity, capital, and commitment: the foundations of a moral economy?

Distrust and rule: late state formation, competing networks, and offshore capacity

Conclusion: expulsion as moral economy or repertoire of regime integration?

References

Unanticipated consequences of “humanitarian intervention”: The British campaign to abolish the slave trade, 1807–1900

The campaign: Phase I

The campaign: Phase II

The campaign’s consequences

Responses

Conclusion

References

Colonial legacy of ethno-racial inequality in Japan

History matters, but how?

Colonialism and immigration

Survival of the colonial network

Durable inequality transferred

Conclusion

References

Part II State-Making, Remaking, and Unmaking

The French Revolution, war, and state-building: making one Tilly out of three*

The Republican/Marxist tradition

The intellectual/cultural alternative

Tilly on war and state-building

Tilly on contention and revolution

Building a state amid contention: France, 1789–1794

State-building

War-making

Contentious politics

The provisioning crisis

The double meaning of the citizen army

Tilly and the ambivalences of history

References

Legacies of empire?

General definitions

Propositions: the legacies of empire

Imperial administration to national bureaucracy

Imperial tribute to state finance

Imperial development and state investment

Identity to nationalism

Imperial inequality: cause or result?

Conclusion

References

Nation-states and national states: Latin America in comparative perspective

Constructing national states and/or nation-states

Tilly and nation-states in Europe and Latin America

The Latin American path

“The masses” and identity in both sides of the Atlantic

The nation and its future: Latin America, the USA, and other new nations

Conclusions

References

Industrial welfare and the state: nation and city reconsidered

The state in late industrial welfare

The economics of risk and industrial welfare

Evolutionary states

Nation-states and non-market institutions

Institutional integration: state rule and local rules

Emergence and evolution: threads of the nation

Work, place, work-place

The evolution of early industrializers

Late industrializers

Effective demand––no rising tide

Variation—the thinning out of institutions

Indian welfare

Industrial welfare and the state: nation and city reconsidered

References

Party governments, US hegemony, & a tale of two Tillys’ Weberian state*

Introduction

“Globalization threatens labor’s rights” by Tilly No. 3

Parties, neoliberal regime change, and the decategorization of labor: Britain and Australia

Postwar labor decategorizing regimes, US hegemony, and parties: Neoliberal Italy?

Hegemony and postwar capitalist regime boundary drawing: OECD

Neoliberal globalization and labor’s struggles for categorical power: a Tillyan alternative to Tilly No. 3?

References

SPOTLIGHT: Terrorism

Part III City-State Relations

SPOTLIGHT: Urban social movements, citizen participation, and trust networks

Reference

From city club to nation state: business networks in American political development

From social closure to good citizenship

Urban social control and trajectories of state development

The contest for obligation

Community networks in the nation state

References

Inclusiveness and exclusion: trust networks at the origins of European cities

Six types

The search for liberty

Merchants’ associations

Merchants’ guilds as urban governments

Craft guilds

Merchants’ companies

Party clans

Officialdom

Functions and limits

References

Cities and states in geohistory

Spatializing Tilly

Pushing back the origin of cities

Emerging polities: the city and the state combined

The industrial capitalist city: a third urban revolution?

The contemporary reconfiguration of cities and states7

References

Part IV Trust Networks and Commitment

The contentious politics of religious diversity*

From religious conflict to religious coexistence

The varieties of religious diversity

Toward a comparative history of religious diversity

References

Irregular armed forces, shifting patterns of commitment, and fragmented sovereignty in the developing world

Urban violence as challenge to the state’s monopoly of coercive power

Armed force, state formation, and sovereignty in theory and practice

Transnational dimensions of fragmented sovereignty

Cities and fragmented sovereignty

Non-state armed actors, urban violence, and fragmented sovereignty: some concluding remarks

References

SPOTLIGHT: A gray area

References

Political opportunity: still a useful concept?*

The criticisms and their rejoinders

Discursive opportunities

Specific opportunities

Perceived opportunities

From conditions to mechanisms

Conclusion

Reference

Part V Democracy and Inequality

Institutions and the adoption of rights: political and property rights in Colombia

Approaches to the study of rights

Institutions and rights

Property rights

Political rights

Colombia: success with electoral democracy and failure with civil and property rights

Property rights of rural lands

Electoral and other political rights

Concluding remarks

References

Taking Tilly south: durable inequalities, democratic contestation, and citizenship in the Southern Metropolis

The contradictory centrality of the Southern Metropolis

Tilly’s relational view of inequality

Tilly’s perspective on democracy and citizenship

Taking Tilly to the Southern Metropolis

Citizens without a city in India: the clientelistic gullies of Mumbai

South Africa: state power versus metropolitan democratization

Brazil: decentralization and local democratization

Conclusion: democratization and citizenship through an urban lens

References

Was government the solution or the problem? The role of the state in the history of American social policy

References

The forms of power and the forms of cities: building on Charles Tilly

Tilly’s use of coercion, capital, and trust as bases of power

The bases of power

The actors of power

The instruments of power

The means of resistance

Spatial coercion and opposition in urban history

What divides urban space: issues of power, of function, and of class

The tools of coercion and opposition in urban space

The implications today

References

SPOTLIGHT: Distrust in democracy: complex civic networks and the case of Brazil

References

Afterword

Disciplines

Historical period

Geographic scale

Geographic setting

Final words

Index