State Power and Social Forces: Domination and Transformation in the Third World Book

	Preface
	List of contributors
	Introduction: developing a state-in-society perspective	1
1	The state in society: an approach to struggles for domination	7
2	Traditional politics against state transformation in Brazil	37
3	State power and social organization in China	65
4	Centralization and powerlessness: India's democracy in a comparative perspective	89
5	States and ruling classes in postcolonial Africa: the enduring contradictions of power	108
6	Labor divided: sources of state formation in modern China	143
7	Business conflict, collaboration, and privilege in interwar Egypt	174
8	A time and a place for the nonstate: social change in the Ottoman Empire during the "long nineteenth century"	207
9	Peasant-state relations in postcolonial Africa: patterns of engagement and disengagement	231
10	Engaging the state: associational life in sub-Saharan Africa	255
11	State power and social forces: on political contention and accommodation in the Third World	293
	Index	327