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Corrigan and Sayer's pioneering analysis of English state formation from the eleventh to the late nineteenth centuries profoundly challenges conventional wisdoms, showing that state formation is cultural revolution and moral regulation is fundamental to state power. Forty years after its original publication, this classic text of historical sociology continues to shape thinking about "the state" and remains widely cited across the social sciences and humanities. This reprint contains the expanded 1991 edition of The Great Arch, plus nine further essays on capitalism and state formation in England and beyond, and a new introduction by Derek Sayer.
Price: $212.00
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Historical Materialism Book Series
Publication Date:
19 November 2026
ISBN: 9789004773257
Format: Hardcover
Philip Corrigan (PhD, Durham, 1975) taught at London University Institute of Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, and the University of Exeter. Many of his writings are collected in Social Forms/Human Capacities: Essays in Authority and Difference (1990).
Derek Sayer (PhD, Durham, 1977) is Professor Emeritus at the University of Alberta. His books include The Violence of Abstraction (1986), Capitalism and Modernity (1990), and the award-winning trilogy The Coasts of Bohemia (1998), Prague, Capital of the 20th Century (2013), and Postcards from Absurdistan (2022).
Corrigan and Sayer jointly founded the Journal of Historical Sociology in 1988.
Derek Sayer (PhD, Durham, 1977) is Professor Emeritus at the University of Alberta. His books include The Violence of Abstraction (1986), Capitalism and Modernity (1990), and the award-winning trilogy The Coasts of Bohemia (1998), Prague, Capital of the 20th Century (2013), and Postcards from Absurdistan (2022).
Corrigan and Sayer jointly founded the Journal of Historical Sociology in 1988.