文档介绍：™ 1 CONTEMPORARY
1 CRITIQUE OF
HISTORICAL
MATERIALISM
A Contemporary Critique of
Historical Materialism
Vol. 1 Power, property and the state
Anthony G id dens
University of California Press
Berkeley and Los Angeles
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University of California Press
Berkeley and Los Angeles
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number
81-43382
ISBN 0-520-04535-1 (cloth)
ISBN 0-520-04490-8 (paper)
® 1981 by Anthony Giddens
Printed in Great Britain
Viewed pathetically, a single second has infinite value; ­
ically, ten thousand years are but a trifle, like yesterday when it is
gone. If one were to say simply and directly that ten thousand years
are but a trifle, many a fool would give his assent, and find it wis­
dom; but he forgets the other, that a second has infinite value.
Kierkegaard
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Contents
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction 1
1 The Time-Space Constitution of Social Systems 26
2 Domination, Power and Exploitation: an Analysis 49
3 Society as Time-Traveller: Capitalism and World History 69
4 Time-Space Distanciation and the Generation of Power 90
5 Property and Class Society 109
6 Time, Labour and the City 129
7 Capitalism: Integration, Surveillance and Class Power 157
8 The Nation-State, Nationalism and Capitalist Development 182
9 The State: Class Conflict and Political Order 203
10 Between Capitalism and Socialism: Contradiction and
Exploitation 230
Notes and References 253
Index 285
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Acknowledgements
I should like to thank a number of people who have helped with
the writing of this book. Among others, Michael Mann and Theda
mented usefully upon an earlier version of the
manuscript. I have tried to meet some of their objections, though 1
fear they will not be fully satisfied with the result. I owe a
particular debt to David Held, who read through the whole book
in the most