Yoke-Sum Wong & Derek Sayer 
Twenty Years of the Journal of Historical Sociology [PDF ebook] 
Volume 1: Essays on the British State

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

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.