本书是以色列著名社会学家艾森斯塔德的代表作，比较并分析了人类历史上曾经出现过的几乎所有官僚帝国的政治体系，包括古埃及、古巴比伦、中华帝国、波斯帝国，以及绝对专制时代的欧洲国家等，是古典社会学时期以来第一部进行广泛比较的宏观社会学分析名著。

本书基于结构功能主义的视角并对其加以发展，为读者呈现出蔚为大观的帝国政体的繁多样貌，也指出了各个体系中所蕴含的现代民主制度的萌芽。

本书以跨学科视野与取径，致力于探讨历史社会学的知识实践式理论逻辑和后设式理论逻辑，分为“从历史学到社会学”和“从社会学到历史学”两部分。前一部分分别通过解读“北美汉学三杰”（孔飞力、史景迁和魏斐德）的代表作，并与韦伯、吕炳强、赵鼎新等社会学家的权力理论、正当性理论以及有关社会学认识论展开对话，指出“迂回历史学、进入社会学”的基础，在于以理论研究纲领式对话，建立多种类型的理论关系，从而确立了历史学家作为社会学家的知识实践类型。后一部分通过文本精读与脉络对话的方式，分别分析了成伯清、第三波历史社会学代表学者（如克莱门斯）、威廉˙休厄尔的作品，引入与分析奥古斯丁式现在时间性、埃利亚斯式继替时间性、休厄尔式阈限时间性和米德式突现时间性，丰富了社会学理论所需的历史质性，进而共同汇聚于以事件社会学之中。

Some of the most important questions of the social sciences in the twentieth century have been posed by scholars working at the intersections of social theory and history viewed on a grand scale. The core essays of this book focus on the careers and contributions of nine of these scholars: Marc Bloch, Karl Polanyi, S. N. Eisenstadt, Reinhard Bendix, Perry Anderson, E. P. Thompson, Charles Tilly, Immanuel Wallerstein, and Barrington Moore, Jr. The essays convey a vivid sense of the vision and values each of these major scholars brings (or bought) to his work and analyze and evaluate the research designs and methods each used in his most important works. The introduction and conclusion discuss the long-running tradition of historically grounded research in sociology, while the conclusion also provides a detailed discussion and comparison of three recurrent strategies for bringing historical evidence and theoretical ideas to bear upon one another. informative, thought-provoking, and unusually practical, the book offers fascinating and relevant reading to sociologists, social historians, historically oriented political economists, and anthropologists - and, indeed, to anyone who wants to learn more about the ideas and methods of some of the best-known scholars in the modern social sciences.

This book contributes to emerging debates in political science and sociology on institutional change. Its introductory essay proposes a new framework for analyzing incremental change that is grounded in a power-distributional view of institutions and that emphasizes ongoing struggles within but also over prevailing institutional arrangements. Five empirical essays then bring the general theory to life by evaluating its causal propositions in the context of sustained analyses of specific instances of incremental change. These essays range widely across substantive topics and across times and places, including cases from the United States, Africa, Latin America, and Asia. The book closes with a chapter reflecting on the possibilities for productive exchange in the analysis of change among scholars associated with different theoretical approaches to institutions.

这部著作试图对欧洲绝对主义国家的性质与发展作一比较考察，书中介绍了东、西欧的绝对主义国家：西班牙、法国、普鲁士、波兰等。

Distinguishing four sources of power – ideological, economic, military and political – this series traces their interrelations throughout human history. This fourth volume covers the period from 1945 to the present, focusing on the three major pillars of post-war global order: capitalism, the nation-state system and the sole remaining empire of the world, the United States. In the course of this period, capitalism, nation-states and empires interacted with one another and were transformed. Mann's key argument is that globalization is not just a single process, because there are globalizations of all four sources of social power, each of which has a different rhythm of development. Topics include the rise and beginnings of decline of the American Empire, the fall or transformation of communism (respectively, the Soviet Union and China), the shift from neo-Keynesianism to neoliberalism, and the three great crises emerging in this period – nuclear weapons, the great recession and climate change.

In this volume, Albert Hirschman reconstructs the intellectual climate of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to illuminate the intricate ideological transformation that occurred, wherein the pursuit of material interests - so long condemned as the deadly sin of avarice - was assigned the role of containing the unruly and destructive passions of man. Hirschman here offers a new interpretation for the rise of capitalism, one that emphasizes the continuities between old and new, in contrast to the assumption of a sharp break that is a common feature of both Marxian and Weberian thinking. Among the insights presented here is the ironical finding that capitalism was originally supposed to accomplish exactly what was soon denounced as its worst feature: the repression of the passions in favor of the 'harmless,' if one-dimensional, interests of commercial life. To portray this lengthy ideological change as an endogenous process, Hirschman draws on the writings of a large number of thinkers, including Montesquieu, Sir James Steuart, and Adam Smith.

What explains the rapid growth of state power in early modern Europe? While most scholars have pointed to the impact of military or capitalist revolutions, Philip S. Gorski argues instead for the importance of a disciplinary revolution unleashed by the Reformation. By refining and diffusing a variety of disciplinary techniques and strategies, such as communal surveillance, control through incarceration, and bureaucratic office-holding, Calvin and his followers created an infrastructure of religious governance and social control that served as a model for the rest of Europe—and the world. Table of Contents Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Body and Soul: Calvinism, Discipline, and State Power in Early Modern Europe 2. Disciplinary Revolution from below in the Low Countries 3. Disciplinary Revolution from above in Brandenburg-Prussia 4. Social Disciplining in Comparative Perspective Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

The present international system, composed for the most part of sovereign, territorial states, is often viewed as the inevitable outcome of historical development. Hendrik Spruyt argues that there was nothing inevitable about the rise of the state system, however. Examining the competing institutions that arose during the decline of feudalism--among them urban leagues, independent communes, city states, and sovereign monarchies--Spruyt disposes of the familiar claim that the superior size and war-making ability of the sovereign nation-state made it the natural successor to the feudal system. The author argues that feudalism did not give way to any single successor institution in simple linear fashion. Instead, individuals created a variety of institutional forms, such as the sovereign, territorial state in France, the Hanseatic League, and the Italian city-states, in reaction to a dramatic change in the medieval economic environment. Only in a subsequent selective phase of institutional evolution did sovereign, territorial authority prove to have significant institutional advantages over its rivals. Sovereign authority proved to be more successful in organizing domestic society and structuring external affairs. Spruyt's interdisciplinary approach not only has important implications for change in the state system in our time, but also presents a novel analysis of the general dynamics of institutional change.

What can the great crises of the past teach us about contemporary revolutions? Arguing from an exciting and original perspective, Goldstone suggests that great revolutions were the product of 'ecological crises' that occurred when inflexible political, economic, and social institutions were overwhelmed by the cumulative pressure of population growth on limited available resources. Moreover, he contends that the causes of the great revolutions of Europe--the English and French revolutions--were similar to those of the great rebellions of Asia, which shattered dynasties in Ottoman Turkey, China, and Japan. The author observes that revolutions and rebellions have more often produced a crushing state orthodoxy than liberal institutions, leading to the conclusion that perhaps it is vain to expect revolution to bring democracy and economic progress. Instead, contends Goldstone, the path to these goals must begin with respect for individual liberty rather than authoritarian movements of 'national liberation.' Arguing that the threat of revolution is still with us, Goldstone urges us to heed the lessons of the past. He sees in the United States a repetition of the behavior patterns that have led to internal decay and international decline in the past, a situation calling for new leadership and careful attention to the balance between our consumption and our resources. Meticulously researched, forcefully argued, and strikingly original, Revolutions and Rebellions in the Early Modern World is a tour de force by a brilliant young scholar. It is a book that will surely engender much discussion and debate.

《解释过去,了解现在:历史社会学》是一本外国著作的中文版本，成书于1999年，一经出版就成为这一领域的一本重要书目。《解释过去,了解现在:历史社会学》主要是针对所谓的"历史学的社会学式运用"这个议题的论文集，审视这两门学科之间日益频繁的交流。《解释过去,了解现在:历史社会学》学术性强，是新时期研究社会学和历史学的一本必读书目。

Examines what Ardant calls the ‘physiology of state-making’: how the builders of states actually performed, or tried to perform, the extractive, coercive, and coordinative side of their work. This emphasis on mechanisms draws attention away from the forms of states and the broadest ends of state-making toward the implications of alternative public policies.

Distinguishing four sources of power - ideological, economic, military and political - this series traces their interrelations throughout human history. This third volume of Michael Mann's analytical history of social power begins with nineteenth-century global empires and continues with a global history of the twentieth century up to 1945. Mann focuses on the interrelated development of capitalism, nation-states and empires. Volume 3 discusses the 'Great Divergence' between the fortunes of the West and the rest of the world; the self-destruction of European and Japanese power in two world wars; the Great Depression; the rise of American and Soviet power; the rivalry between capitalism, socialism and fascism; and the triumph of a reformed and democratic capitalism.

本书将西方主要的历史社会学者把政治学者的著作进行了整理与归纳，让读者能重新审视西方现代社会的形成和性质。 致谢 主要书名缩写 导言 第一编 反思性历史社会学家 导言 第一章 诺贝特·埃利亚斯 第二章 弗朗兹·博克瑙 第三章 埃里克·沃格林 第四章 刘易斯·芒福德 第一编总结 同与异 第二编 现代怀的眼光 导言 第五章 新教精神（韦伯） 第六章 宫廷社会（埃利亚斯） 第七章 机械的世界观（博克瑙） 第八章 诺斯替反潮（沃格林） 第九章 新型巨权机器（芒福德） 第十章 规训社会（福柯） 第二编总结 作为永久阈限性的现代性 结论 参考文献 人名索引 主题索引 译后记

The book considers the past accomplishments and future agendas of comparative-historical research in the social sciences. It defines the distinctiveness of this type of research and explores its strengths in explaining important outcomes (e.g. revolutions, social provision, democracy) in the world. It includes sections on substantive research accomplishments, methodology, and theory, and features essays by some of the most important political scientists and sociologists currently working. This review of the accomplishments and future agendas of comparative historical research in the social sciences explores its strengths in explaining important worldwide outcomes (e.g., revolutions, social provision, democracy). It includes sections on substantive research accomplishments, methodology, and theory, and features essays by some of the most important political scientists and sociologists currently working.

在《社会权力的来源(第4卷全球化1945-2011上下)》中，著者迈克尔·曼描述了意识形态范围扩宽后又变窄的过程、资本家的胜利和苦难、国家之间战争消退并为和平或内战所取代、国家公民权的加强、除一个帝国之外其他所有帝国为民族国家所取代。所有这些都是在不断增加的全球层次上发生的——这是一系列的全球化过程，而且这个过程有时被加强，有时被削弱，但是它们都互不相同。结果，世界的联系更为紧密，虽然并不和谐；而且，现在的世界很接近一个统一的全球体系。这是一个普遍但又多样的全球化过程。

This is a 1979 book by political scientist and sociologist Theda Skocpol, published by Cambridge University Press and explaining the causes of revolutions through the structural functionalism sociological paradigm comparative historical analysis of the French Revolution of 1787 through the early 19th century French Revolution, the Russian Revolution of 1917 through the 1930s Russian Revolution and the Chinese Revolution of 1911 through the 1960s Cultural Revolution. Skocpol argues that these three cases, despite being spread over a century and a half, are similar in the sense that all three were Social Revolutions Skocpol asserts that Social Revolutions are rapid and basic transformations of a society's state and class structures. This is different from, for example, a mere 'rebellion' which merely involves a revolt of subordinate classes but may not create structural change and from a Political Revolution that may change state structures but not social structures. Industrialization can transform social structure but not change the political structure. What is unique about Social Revolutions, she says, is that basic changes in social structure and political structure occur in a mutually reinforcing fashion and these changes occur through intense sociopolitical conflict.

《中国社会分层的结构与演变》系统地论述了中国社会分层的结构与演变。全书共分八章，内容包括：引论；中国社会分层——1949年以前；中国的社会分层与干部制度——1949－1959；中国的社会分层与干部制度——1959－1979；中国社会分层的三个主要体制；中国社会各阶级阶层的分析等。《中国社会分层的结构与演变》内容全面，论述透彻，具有很强的可读性。