1. We have been highly selective in our citations to both evidence and argument. For a fuller bibliography for the general issues see P. Corrigan and D. Sayer The Great Arch: English State Formation as Cultural Revolution(Oxford: Blackwell 1985). For the nineteenth century see P. Corrigan State Formation and Moral Regulation in Nineteenth‐century Britain: Sociological Investigations(Durham England Ph.D. thesis 1977) and P. Corrigan (ed.) Capitalism. State Formation and Marxist Theory: Historical Investigations(London: Quartet; New York: Urizen 1980).
2. Notes on the Difficulty of Studying the State. Paper to the 1977 British Sociological Association Annual Conference (mimeo);Abrams P.;Journal of Historical Sociology,1977