Twenty Years of the Journal of Historical Sociology (eBook)

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
(JHS 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