能使一个怀有创新欲望的历史学者陶醉的事情莫过于他发现了一个尚未被其他人认真探讨的课题,或是察觉到一个可用于解释历史问题的方法系。而《西方国家形态史》这个题目便是吸引着我并使我充满激情的课题。 写这本书的念头的萌动已有相当的时间了。80年代初我还在热心地研究英国宪章运动史时,已触及到资产阶级民主运动和工人阶级的国家观问题。这样,当我有机会在 One thing that fascinates a historian who has the creative desires is the discovery of a subject that has not been seriously explored by others or a method that can be used to explain historical issues. The topic of “History of Western Countries” is the subject that has attracted me and made me full of passion. The idea of ​​writing this book has been sprouting for quite some time. In the early 1980s, I was still earnestly studying the issue of the state outlook that had touched the bourgeois democratic movement and the working class when the charter movement in Britain was enthusiastic. In this way, when I have a chance