| Through the Lens of Israel: Explorations in State and Society Contributor(s): Migdal, Joel S. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0791449858 ISBN-13: 9780791449851 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2001 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Middle East - Israel & Palestine - Political Science | Comparative Politics - Political Science | Public Policy - Social Policy |
| Dewey: 301.095 |
| LCCN: 00058764 |
| Series: Suny Israeli Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.71" H x 6.05" W x 9.21" (0.97 lbs) 248 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Middle East |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Through the Lens of Israel illuminates Israeli history through the use of the author's unique state-in-society approach, and, at the same time, refines, develops, and expands that approach. The book provides a window for the formation of Israeli state and society during the twentieth century, while using the Israeli experience to ask how social scientists can better investigate and understand other societies as well. Three central themes of Israeli history are at the core of the analysis--state formation, society formation, and the mutually constitutive roles of state and society. By analyzing how Israel's state and society continually reconstruct one another, Migdal addresses larger questions with resonance far beyond Israel: How do particular societies and states end up with their distinctive character? How are the rules that shape everyday behavior determined? Who gains from these rules and who loses? And how and when do these rules and patterns of privilege change? |