Twenty Years of the Journal of Historical Sociology

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