The Wealth of States : A Comparative Sociology of International Economic and Political Change (Paperback)

1. A sociology of international relations and an international relations of sociology; Part I. Case Studies in Structural Economic Change: States and Trade Regime Changes, 1870?1913; 2. Protectionism in Imperial Germany: moderate state capacity and indirect taxation; 3. Protectionism and industrialism in Tsarist Russia: weak state capacity and indirect taxation; 4. Free trade versus protectionism in liberal Britain: strong state capacity and the conflict over taxation; 5. Protectionism and indirect taxation in federal states: USA, Canada, Australia and Switzerland; Part II. Theorizing International and National Structural Economic and Political Change: 6. A sociological theory of international economic change: the transition to tariff protectionism, 1870?1913; 7. State capacity in the international/national vortex: a non-realist theory of state power and international politics.