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Presidential Address: State Formation in Asia—Prolegomenon to a Comparative Study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2011

Susanne Hoeber Rudolph
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The dictionary says that a prolegomenon is “a learned preface or preamble, … introductory or preliminary observations on the subject of a book.” And indeed, the remarks I am about to make are preliminary to a volume on state formation that Lloyd Rudolph and I hope to produce one of these years. Such a prolegomenon is also a commitment to a path of action, a justification, a polemic in favor of what one proposes to do. Today, I want to speak for the domain of comparison.

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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 46 , Issue 4 , November 1987 , pp. 731 - 746
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1987

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