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 and delegitimized empire after empire. Nationalists created nation-states wherever the power configuration favored them, often at the end of prolonged wars of secession. The elites of many of these new states were institutionally too weak for nation-building and favored their own ethnic communities. Ethnic rebels challenged such exclusionary power structures in violation of the principles of self-rule, and neighboring governments sometimes intervened into these struggles over the state. Waves of War demonstrates why nation-state formation and ethnic politics are crucial to understand the civil and international wars of the past 200 years.
Andreas Wimmer's research brings a long term and globally comparative perspective to the questions of how states are built and nations formed, how individuals draw ethnic and racial boundaries between themselves and others, and which kinds of political conflicts and war results from these processes. Using new methods and data, he continues the old search for historical patterns that repeat across contexts and times. He has pursued this agenda across the disciplinary fields of sociology, political science, and social anthropology and through various styles of inquiry: field research in Oaxaca (Mexico) and Iraq, comparative historical analysis, quantitative cross-national research, network studies, formal modeling, the analysis of large-scale survey data, as well as policy oriented research.
Andreas Wimmer was educated at the University of Zurich, from where he received a PhD in social anthropology in 1992 and a habilitation two years later. He joined Columbia University in 2015 as the Lieber Professor of Sociology and Political Philosophy. He previouly taught at Princeton University, where he also served as director of the Fung Global Fellows Program, and at the University of California Los Angeles (from 2003 to 2012). Before moving to the United States, Wimmer was founding director of two interdisciplinary research institutes: the Swiss Forum for Migration and Population Studies at the University of Neuchâtel (from 1995 to 1999) and the Department of Political and Cultural Change at the Center for Development Research of the University of Bonn (from 1999 to 2002).
评分
评分
评分
评分
读完《Waves of War》,我内心久久不能平静。这本书以其磅礴的气势和细腻的情感,将我带入了一段波澜壮阔的历史。作者的叙事方式十分引人入胜,既有史诗般的宏大场景,又不乏对人物内心世界的深刻挖掘。我被书中那些充满血泪与勇气的篇章所深深打动,每一个故事都仿佛发生在眼前,让我感同身受。书中对战争的描绘,并非简单地展现其破坏力,而是更侧重于战争对人性的考验,以及在极端环境下,人们所展现出的不同寻常的品质。那些为了家园而奋不顾身的战士,那些在硝烟中坚守希望的母亲,那些在困境中寻求出路的普通人,他们的形象在我脑海中久久挥之不去。这本书让我意识到,历史的车轮滚滚向前,但每一个生命都值得被铭记。它让我对战争的残酷有了更直观的认识,也让我对和平的来之不易有了更深刻的体会。
评分这是一本让我读后久久不能平静的书。《Waves of War》以其宏大的叙事和深刻的人文关怀,成功地把我带入了一个充满冲突与变革的时代。我尤其欣赏作者在处理历史事件的宏观视角与个体命运的微观描写之间所展现出的高超技巧。书中不仅描绘了战争的残酷与无情,更着力刻画了在极端环境下,人们如何选择、如何生存、如何去爱。那些在绝望中寻找希望的眼神,那些在失去亲人后的痛苦嘶吼,那些在炮火中依然闪耀的善良,都给我留下了深刻的印象。我仿佛看到了历史上那些被遗忘的角落,看到了那些曾经在历史浪潮中默默承受一切的普通人。这本书让我对战争的理解不再停留在表面,而是深入到战争对个体心灵的创伤,以及战争如何塑造一个民族的精神。它让我反思,在历史的巨轮下,我们每个人都是渺小的,但我们的选择,我们的坚持,却能汇聚成改变历史的微小力量。
评分这本书的标题《Waves of War》本身就带着一种史诗般的震撼感,让人不禁联想到波涛汹涌的历史洪流,以及其中个体渺小却又顽强挣扎的身影。我拿到这本书的时候,就被它的封面设计深深吸引,深邃的蓝色如同无垠的海洋,偶尔泛起的白色浪花又像是战争留下的创痕,充满了故事感。阅读的过程,我仿佛置身于一个宏大的历史画卷之中,感受着那些被时代洪流裹挟的生命,他们或许是叱咤风云的将领,他们的决策影响着数百万人的命运;又或许是默默无闻的士兵,他们在炮火纷飞的战场上出生入死,用血肉之躯书写着历史的篇章。我尤其被书中对细节的刻画所打动,无论是战前士兵们的忐忑不安,还是战后幸存者的失落与迷茫,都描绘得淋漓尽致。这种对战争残酷性的真实展现,让人无法回避,也让人更加深刻地理解到和平的珍贵。书中对于不同阵营人物的描绘也相当立体,没有简单的善恶二元对立,而是深入探讨了战争是如何扭曲人性,又如何在绝境中闪耀人性的光辉。每一次阅读,都仿佛在经历一场心灵的洗礼,让我反思战争的根源,以及人类在其中扮演的角色。
评分《Waves of War》给予了我一种前所未有的沉浸式阅读体验,它不仅仅是一部关于战争的书,更像是一扇通往历史深处的窗户,让我得以窥见那些被时间和尘埃掩埋的真实情感与复杂人性。作者的笔触细腻而富有张力,能够将宏大的战争场面与微观的人物情感完美地融合在一起。我印象最深的是书中对于战争中的“无名者”的关注,那些普通的家庭,在战争的阴影下,他们的生活如何被颠覆,他们的希望如何被摧毁,他们的爱恨情仇又如何被时代的洪流裹挟。书中的描写常常让我鼻子发酸,又或是心潮澎湃。那种身临其境的感觉,不仅仅是场景的还原,更是情感的共鸣。我仿佛能听到硝烟弥漫中的呐喊,感受到饥饿与恐惧的侵蚀,也能体会到战友之间生死相托的深厚情谊。这本书让我意识到,历史并非冰冷的数据和事件的堆砌,而是由无数鲜活的生命和他们的故事组成的。它挑战了我对战争的既有认知,让我看到战争背后更深层的人性困境与挣扎。
评分《Waves of War》这本书,可以说是一次极其震撼的阅读之旅。作者的笔法老练,将历史的厚重感与人物的鲜活感融为一体,让人在阅读过程中欲罢不能。我特别喜欢书中对于战争时期社会各个阶层人物的描绘,从权倾朝野的政客,到战场上浴血奋战的士兵,再到后方默默奉献的女性,每一个角色都被赋予了独特的生命力,他们的命运交织在一起,共同谱写了一曲悲壮的史诗。书中的许多情节,都让我心头为之一颤,比如那些为了理想而付出的巨大牺牲,比如那些在战乱中为了生存而不得不做出的艰难抉择,又比如那些在绝望中依然不放弃的希望之光。它让我深刻地认识到,战争不仅仅是国家的冲突,更是无数个体生命轨迹的断裂与重塑。这本书让我对历史有了更深的敬畏,也让我对人性的复杂与坚韧有了更深的理解。
评分不得不说政治科学在研究技艺、抽象/理论问题具象/历史化和mixed methods方面确实积累了很好的基础了
评分不得不说政治科学在研究技艺、抽象/理论问题具象/历史化和mixed methods方面确实积累了很好的基础了
评分不得不说政治科学在研究技艺、抽象/理论问题具象/历史化和mixed methods方面确实积累了很好的基础了
评分不得不说政治科学在研究技艺、抽象/理论问题具象/历史化和mixed methods方面确实积累了很好的基础了
评分不得不说政治科学在研究技艺、抽象/理论问题具象/历史化和mixed methods方面确实积累了很好的基础了
本站所有内容均为互联网搜索引擎提供的公开搜索信息,本站不存储任何数据与内容,任何内容与数据均与本站无关,如有需要请联系相关搜索引擎包括但不限于百度,google,bing,sogou 等
© 2026 book.quotespace.org All Rights Reserved. 小美书屋 版权所有