Why did the nation-state emerge and proliferate across the globe? How is this process related to the wars fought in the modern era? Analyzing datasets that cover the entire world over long stretches of time, Andreas Wimmer focuses on changing configurations of power and legitimacy to answer these questions. The nationalist ideal of self-rule gradually diffused over the world an...(展开全部)

Why did the nation-state emerge and proliferate across the globe? How is this process related to the wars fought in the modern era? Analyzing datasets that cover the entire world over long stretches of time, Andreas Wimmer focuses on changing configurations of power and legitimacy to answer these questions. The nationalist ideal of self-rule gradually diffused over the world an...(展开全部)

Why did the nation-state emerge and proliferate across the globe? How is this process related to the wars fought in the modern era? Analyzing datasets that cover the entire world over long stretches of time, Andreas Wimmer focuses on changing configurations of power and legitimacy to answer these questions. The nationalist ideal of self-rule gradually diffused over the world an...(展开全部)

Why did the nation-state emerge and proliferate across the globe? How is this process related to the wars fought in the modern era? Analyzing datasets that cover the entire world over long stretches of time, Andreas Wimmer focuses on changing configurations of power and legitimacy to answer these questions. The nationalist ideal of self-rule gradually diffused over the world an...(展开全部)

许田波，现为美国圣母大学政治学系助理教授。她2000年毕业于美国哥伦比亚大学政治学系，获博士学位，并曾先后获得哈佛大学约翰·奥林战略研究所、斯坦福大学国际安全与合作中心、圣母大学海伦·凯洛格国际研究所、哈里·弗兰克·古根海姆基金会和世界政治研究所的研究资助。

许田波，现为美国圣母大学政治学系助理教授。她2000年毕业于美国哥伦比亚大学政治学系，获博士学位，并曾先后获得哈佛大学约翰·奥林战略研究所、斯坦福大学国际安全与合作中心、圣母大学海伦·凯洛格国际研究所、哈里·弗兰克·古根海姆基金会和世界政治研究所的研究资助。

许田波，现为美国圣母大学政治学系助理教授。她2000年毕业于美国哥伦比亚大学政治学系，获博士学位，并曾先后获得哈佛大学约翰·奥林战略研究所、斯坦福大学国际安全与合作中心、圣母大学海伦·凯洛格国际研究所、哈里·弗兰克·古根海姆基金会和世界政治研究所的研究资助。

许田波，现为美国圣母大学政治学系助理教授。她2000年毕业于美国哥伦比亚大学政治学系，获博士学位，并曾先后获得哈佛大学约翰·奥林战略研究所、斯坦福大学国际安全与合作中心、圣母大学海伦·凯洛格国际研究所、哈里·弗兰克·古根海姆基金会和世界政治研究所的研究资助。

From a tiny group of Germanic bands to the mightiest governmental system the world had ever known - what caused the momentous rise of the European states? Drawing on Toynbee's theory of civilizations, Victor Lee Burke develops an account of the origins and transformation of governments in Europe between the eighth and seventeenth centuries. Borrowing also from Charles Tilly's a...(展开全部)

Since its publication this important study has become established as a central work on the vast and contested subject of modern nationalism. Placing historical evidence within a general theoretical framework, John Breuilly argues that nationalism should be understood as a form of politics that arises in opposition to the modern state. In this updated and revised edition, he ext...(展开全部)