Lectures on Politics and Economic Life: Lecture 8 - Enemies and friends of the state

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Description: Lecture given by Alan Macfarlane for first year students in 2007. Filmed by Zilan Wang.

Bandits and the reasons for bandits; mafia type organizations and their functions; heresy and terrorism, the threats of ‘evil’; civil society – corporations, associations and the origins of freedom
Hann, ch.12
Erik Hobsbawm, Bandits (1972)
Anton Blok, The Mafia of a Sicilian Village, 1860-1960 (1974)
Norman Cohn, Europe’s Inner Demons (1975)
Charles Townsend, Terrorism: A Very Short Introduction (2002)
Chris Hann & Elizabeth Dunn (eds.), Civil Society (1996)


 
Created: 2018-03-23 17:22
Collection: Politics and Economic Life Lectures
Publisher: University of Cambridge
Copyright: Prof Alan Macfarlane
Language: eng (English)
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