This is the first volume to appear in the 'Origins of the Modern State in Europe' series, which arises from an important international research programme sponsored by the European Sciences Foundation.The aim of the series, which comprises seven volumes, is to bring together specialists from different countries, who reinterpret from a comparative European perspective, different ...(展开全部)

What is “Chinese” about China’s modern state? This book proposes that the state we see today has developed over the past two centuries largely as a response to internal challenges emerging from the late empire. Well before the Opium War, Chinese confronted such constitutional questions as: How does the scope of political participation affect state power? How is the state to sec...(展开全部)

What is “Chinese” about China’s modern state? This book proposes that the state we see today has developed over the past two centuries largely as a response to internal challenges emerging from the late empire. Well before the Opium War, Chinese confronted such constitutional questions as: How does the scope of political participation affect state power? How is the state to sec...(展开全部)

What is “Chinese” about China’s modern state? This book proposes that the state we see today has developed over the past two centuries largely as a response to internal challenges emerging from the late empire. Well before the Opium War, Chinese confronted such constitutional questions as: How does the scope of political participation affect state power? How is the state to sec...(展开全部)

What is “Chinese” about China’s modern state? This book proposes that the state we see today has developed over the past two centuries largely as a response to internal challenges emerging from the late empire. Well before the Opium War, Chinese confronted such constitutional questions as: How does the scope of political participation affect state power? How is the state to sec...(展开全部)

The modern state, however we conceive of it today, is based on a pattern that emerged in Europe in the period from 1100 to 1600. Inspired by a lifetime of teaching and research, On the Medieval Origins of the Modern State is a classic work on what is known about the early history of the European state. This short, clear book book explores the European state in its infancy, espe...(展开全部)

约瑟夫·R. 斯特雷耶(Joseph R. Strayer)(1904一1987)美国著名中世纪史学家，曾任普林斯顿大学历史系主任、美国历史学会主席。著名的著作包括《封建主义》(Feudalism)、《中世纪》(The Middle Ages)、《中世纪的西欧》(Weste rn Europe in the Middle Ages)等。

The modern state, however we conceive of it today, is based on a pattern that emerged in Europe in the period from 1100 to 1600. Written from the experience of a lifetime of teaching and research in the field, this short, clear book is the classic work on what is known about the early history of the European state. Charles Tilly's foreword shows how Strayer's book set the agend...(展开全部)

Between the end of the Middle Ages and the eighteenth century, what methods were used to monitor and control the increasing number of texts--from the early handwritten books to the later, printed volumes--that were being put into circulation? In "The Order of Books, Chartier examines the different systems required to regulate the world of writing through the centuries, from the...(展开全部)

罗杰•夏蒂埃1945年12月9日生于法国里昂，1967年获索邦大学硕士学位，1969年，他取得法国的大学历史学教师资格，1969-1970年，他任巴黎Lycee Louis-le-Gand的助理教授，同年为巴黎第一大学的现代史助理教授，后任法国社会科学高等研究院（EHESS）高级讲师，后担任该院所长。2006年始任法国学院教授，执掌“现代欧洲的书写文化”教职。 罗杰•夏蒂埃法国第四代年鉴学派、新文化史研究的代表人物，他的阅读史研究一般被视为新文化史和思想史的结合，扩大了书籍史的外延，在物质实践之处，他更关注一种文化实践的阅读，他认为正是阅读的发生，书籍的真正意义才会产生。他的关于书籍史的横跨社会史、文化史、思想史的研究方式使他成为当代最为重要的史学大师之一。其主要著作有：《法国编辑史》（主编）4卷（1989–1991）、《旧制度下法国的阅读和读者》（...(展开全部)