Twenty Years of the Journal of Historical Sociology V1

Yoke-Sum Wong is a Lecturer in Sociology at Lancaster University, UK. Derek Sayer is Professor of Cultural History at Lancaster University, UK. He is the author of ten books including The Coasts of Bohemia: A Czech History , Capitalism and Modernity , and with Philip Corrigan, The Great Arch .

Foreword: A Curious Little Magazine. Introduction. Part I: Perspectives: . 1. Notes on the Difficulty of Studying The State: Philip Abrams ( JHS Vol. 1, No. 1, 1988). 2. The Genesis of American Capitalism: An Historical Inquiry Into State Theory: Claude Denis ( JHS Vol. 2, No. 4, 1989). 3. Who Needs The Nation? Interrogating "British" History: Antoinette Burton ( JHS Vol. 10, No. 3, 1997). Part II: Studies:. 4. The Peculiarities of the English State: G.E. Aylmer (J HS Vol. 3, No. 2, 1990). 5. Engla Lond: The Making of an Allegiance: Patrick Wormald ( JHS Vol. 7, No. 1, 1994). 6. The Beginnings of English Imperialism: John Gillingham ( JHS Vol. 5, No. 4, 1992). 7. The English State and the 'Celtic' Peoples 1100-1400: Rees Davis ( JHS Vol. 6, No. 1, 1993). 8. Hand and Mouth: Information Gathering and Use in England in the Later Middle Ages: Colin Richmond ( JHS Vol. 1, No. 3, 1988). 9. Civilizing Northumberland: Representations of Englishness in the Tudor State: Steven G. Ellis ( JHS Vol. 12, No. 2, 1999). 10. Science, Power, Bodies: The Mobilization of Nature as State Formation: Patrick Carroll ( JHS Vol. 9, No. 2, 1996). 11. The Rise of the Information State: The Development of Central State Surveillance of the Citizen in England, 1500-2000: Edward Higgs ( JHS Vol. 14, No. 2, 2001). Part III: Debates:. When/What Was the English State?:. 12. Gerald Aylmer And DGOS: Derek Sayer ( JHS Vol. 15, No. 1, 2002). 13. When/What Was the English State: The Later Middle Ages?: Colin Richmond ( JHS Vol. 15, No. 1, 2002). 14. 'The State as Monarchical Commonwealth': 'Tudor' England: Patrick Collinson ( JHS Vol.15, No 1, 2002). 15. The Medieval State: The Tyranny Of A Concept?: Rees Davis ( JHS Vol.16, No. 2, 2003). 16. There Were States in Medieval Europe: A Response to Rees Davis: Susan Reynolds ( JHS Vol. 16, No. 4, 2003). The Ghost of Max Weber:. 17. Contentions of the Purse between England and its European Rivals from Henry V To George IV: A Conversation With Michael Mann: Patrick Karl O'Brien ( JHS Vol. 19, No. 4, 2006). 18. Putting the Weberian State in its Social, Geopolitical and Militaristic Context: A Response To Patrick O'Brien: Michael Mann ( JHS Vol. 19, No. 4, 2006). Index