After nations : the making and unmaking of a world order / Rana Dasgupta.
| Author/creator | Dasgupta, Rana, 1971- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | First United States edition. |
| Publication | New York, NY : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2026. |
| Copyright Date | ©2026 |
| Description | 488 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Making and unmaking of a world order |
| Contents | Introduction: Hope, not despair -- Part I: God : France. The crown of God ; The two-tier divinity ; Backlash: rejecting the 'mortal God' ; Twenty-first-century religious war -- Part II: Money : Britain. The dictatorship of property ; How to pay Asia? ; Industry and war: the principle of labour ; The end of democracy: property restored -- Part III: Law : America. The tyranny of 'civilisation' ; An American world constitution ; The early American empire ; Privatised law: the late empire -- Part III: Nature : China. Agrarian empire and the invention of politics ; Tianxia: all under heaven ; Communism: preserving the imperium ; Planet Earth in the Chinese era -- Conclusion: After nations -- Appendix: What is a nation-state?. |
| Abstract | "Until recently, the system of nation-states appeared settled and eternal. Not anymore. As American hegemony unwinds and Western countries slide into anxiety and debt, there is a resurgence of tyranny, imperialism and war. It is no longer clear that states can deliver minimal services, let alone defeat inequality and climate change. Even in rich countries, many feel they are being progressively neglected; in some parts of the world, populations are entirely abandoned by nation-states and must depend on improvised systems of their own. Rana Dasgupta traces the formation and rise of the nation-state system in order to explain its multiple failures today. He takes us from the fall of ancient empires and the expansion of European concepts of money and law right up to the emergence of twenty-first-century tech firms--the first significant new geopolitical actors to emerge since the inception of nation-states--and the epochal restoration of Chinese power. He posits that the time has come to develop a new conception of citizenship, law, and economy--one that corresponds to our globalized and ecologically fragile condition. Richly detailed, urgent, and told with remarkable clarity, After Nations is an essential text for anyone looking to understand why we seem to be losing our political hold on the world, and how we might try to restore it."-- Publisher's website. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 441-460) and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version http://id.loc.gov/entities/relationships/onlineversion Dasgupta, Rana, 1971- After nations First United States edition New York, NY : Viking, 2026 9780399563690 |
| Genre/form | History |
| Genre/form | Informational works. |
| Genre/form | Documents d'information. |
| LCCN | 2026009885 |
| ISBN | 9780399563676 hardcover |
| ISBN | 0399563679 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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| Joyner | New Books | JC311 .D339 2026 | ✔ Available | Want This? |