What are states, and how are they made? Scholars of European history assert that war makes states, just as states make war. This study finds that in China, the challenges of governing produced a trajectory of state-building in which the processes of moral regulation and social control were at least as central to state-making as the exercise of coercive power. State-making is, i...(展开全部)

What are states, and how are they made? Scholars of European history assert that war makes states, just as states make war. This study finds that in China, the challenges of governing produced a trajectory of state-building in which the processes of moral regulation and social control were at least as central to state-making as the exercise of coercive power. State-making is, i...(展开全部)

格里德尔（J.B.Grieder），中文名贾祖麟，哈佛大学博士，美国著名中国研究学者费正清和史华慈的学生，布朗大学历史系教授（现已退休）。专长研究中国知识分子史，主要著作有《胡适与中国的文艺复兴》及《知识分子与现代中国》等。

Making Religion, Making the State combines cutting-edge perspectives on religion with rich empirical data to offer a challenging new argument about the politics of religion in modern China. The volume goes beyond extant portrayals of the opposition of state and religion to emphasize their mutual constitution. With chapters written by experts on Buddhism, Protestantism, Catholic...(展开全部)

Making Religion, Making the State combines cutting-edge perspectives on religion with rich empirical data to offer a challenging new argument about the politics of religion in modern China. The volume goes beyond extant portrayals of the opposition of state and religion to emphasize their mutual constitution. With chapters written by experts on Buddhism, Protestantism, Catholic...(展开全部)

格里德尔（J.B.Grieder），中文名贾祖麟，哈佛大学博士，美国著名中国研究学者费正清和史华慈的学生，布朗大学历史系教授（现已退休）。专长研究中国知识分子史，主要著作有《胡适与中国的文艺复兴》及《知识分子与现代中国》等。

In this meticulously researched study, Sheldon Garon examines the evolution of Japan's governmental policies toward labor from the late nineteenth century to the present day, and he substantially revises prevailing views which depict relations between the Japanese state and labor simply in terms of suppression and mutual antagonism.

The latest edition of this well-established and highly regarded textbook continues to provide the clearest and most comprehensive introduction to the modern state. It examines the state from its historical origins at the birth of modernity to its current jeopardized position in the globalized politics of the twenty-first century. Subjects covered include: the nation-state in i...(展开全部)