Marx war eigentlich kein "Marxist". Zum Marxisten haben ihn spätere Generationen gemacht. Die Biografie rekonstruiert demgegenüber Leben und Werk von Marx gut lesbar und fundiert anhand der Zeitumstände des 19. Jahrhunderts. Das Buch eröffnet neue Perspektiven und einen zeitgemäe︢n Blick...

As much a portrait of his time as a biography of the man, Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion returns the author of Das Kapital to his nineteenth-century world, before twentieth-century inventions transformed him into Communism's patriarch and fierce lawgiver. Gareth Stedman Jones depicts an era...

The notion of state capacity has attracted renewed interest over the last few years, in particular in the study of violent conflict. Yet, state capacity is conceived differently depending on whether the interest lies in the state's power to discourage violent conflict, in its ability to...