Böcker av Jack Barbalet

This book explores the nationalist and imperialist ideas underlying Max Weber's sociology, offering a conceptual analysis of his work to argue that Weber's thought is informed by an ethno-national understanding of the German people whose political aspirations can only be realized through a power-state and its activities on a world stage.

Setting the context for the upheavals and transformations of contemporary China, this text provides a re-assessment of Max Weber's celebrated sociology of China.