Thomas Ertman
Associate Professor of Sociology; Director of Undergraduate Studies
Ph.D. 1990, M.A. 1985, B.A. 1981, Harvard University.
Office Address: 295 Lafayette St., Room 4110
Phone: (212) 998-8359
Email: thomas.ertman@nyu.edu
Areas of Research/Interest: Comparative/historical sociology; political sociology; social theory; sociology of the arts.
Bio:
For as far back as I can remember, I have struggled to understand why Europe--and especially Germany--left the path of peace and prosperity after 1914 for that of war and genocide. While an undergraduate, I thought philosophy might throw some light on this problem, but I found its answers too abstract. It was the intellectual dynamism of historical sociology in the early 1980's, open as it was to the latest developments in history, social theory and political science, that persuaded me that I could best pursue this question further as a graduate student in sociology.
Select Publications:
Birth of the Leviathan: Building States and Regimes in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Cambridge University Press, 1997. Barrington Moore Prize of the ASA 1998.
"Democracy and Dictatorship in Interwar Western Europe Revisited." World Politics, April 1998.
Taming the Leviathan: Building Democratic Nation-States in 19th and 20th Century Western Europe. (In Progress.)
发表于2024-11-21
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梯利曾说,历史社会学的两大经典命题乃是资本主义的扩展和近代国家的生成。梯利用自己的若干煌煌巨著为后者提供了一个可以置信的解释:地缘政治的竞争格局引发欧洲国家连绵的战争,而筹措战争资源最终导致了现代意义上的国家机器的诞生,君主、政治精英和民众之间的妥协和斗争...
评分第68页:“他们也要带领自己招募的‘公司’(company)参与战争” 查一下字典就会发现company有“连队”的意思。出现这个错误令人费解,因为134页“company economy”正确地翻译为“连队经济”。但前三章所有其他应该被翻译为连队的地方都译成“公司”; 第81页:“这...
评分郭台辉:您所著的《利维坦的诞生:中世纪及现代早期欧洲的国家与政权建设》一书,甫一出版就引起相当大的关注,并在1998年获得巴林顿·摩尔奖。可以简单介绍一下这个奖项吗? 托马斯·埃特曼:历史社会学是介于史学与社会科学之间的一门新兴学科。由美国社会学协会历史社会学部颁发...
评分郭台辉:您所著的《利维坦的诞生:中世纪及现代早期欧洲的国家与政权建设》一书,甫一出版就引起相当大的关注,并在1998年获得巴林顿·摩尔奖。可以简单介绍一下这个奖项吗? 托马斯·埃特曼:历史社会学是介于史学与社会科学之间的一门新兴学科。由美国社会学协会历史社会学部颁发...
评分图书标签: 历史社会学 政治学 社会学 历史 比较政治 HistoricalSociology State 英文原版
For many years scholars have sought to explain why the European states which emerged in the period before the French Revolution developed along such different lines. Why did some become absolutist and others constitutionalist? What enabled some to develop bureaucratic administrative systems, while others remained dependent upon patrimonial practices? This book presents a new theory of state-building in medieval and early modern Europe. Ertman argues that two factors - the organisation of local government at the time of state formation and the timing of sustained geo-military competition - can explain most of the variation in political regimes and in state infrastructures found across the continent during the second half of the eighteenth century. Drawing on insights developed in historical sociology, comparative politics, and economic history, this book makes a compelling case for the value of interdisciplinary approaches to the study of political development.
2018 fall: state-building in Medieval and early modern Europe. factors to explain variation in political regimes and in state infrastructures: the organization of local government, the timing of the onset of sustained geopolitical competition, the independent influence of strong representative assemblies on administrative and financial institution.
评分本周第二本书了
评分1、增加了dimension of state infrastructure,是点睛之笔。 2、基于character of local government来解释regime,很有说服力。 3、state infrastructure与strong representative institution的出现次序造就了英国和波兰的不同命运。
评分其实只看了Introduction用时间本身作为解释变量确实是挺有意义的做法
评分Most comprehensive and insightful masterpiece of state formation theories
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