John A. Hall (born 1949) is the James McGill Professor of Comparative Historical Sociology at McGill University, Montreal. He is the author or editor of over 20 books.
Education
- PhD, London School of Economics, 1976;
- MA, Pennsylvania State University, 1972;
- BA, Oxford University, 1970.
Selected publications
- (2013) The Importance of Being Civil. Princeton University Press.
- (2013) Nationalism and War, edited with Sinisa Malesevic. Cambridge University Press.
- (2010) Ernest Gellner: An Intellectual Biography. Verso.
- (2006) An Anatomy of Power: The Social Theory of Michael Mann, edited with Ralph Schroeder. Cambridge University Press.
- (2006) National Identity and the Varieties of Capitalism: The Danish Experience. edited with John L. Campbell and Ove Kaj Pedersen. McGill-Queen's University Press.
- (2005) Civil Society: A Reader, edited with Frank Trentmann. Palgrave Macmillan.
- (2005) Historical Methods in the Social Sciences, edited with Joseph M. Bryant. Sage. 4 vols.
- (2003) The Nation-State in Question, edited with T. V. Paul and John Ikenberry. Princeton University Press.
- (1999) International Order and the Future of World Politics, edited with T. V. Paul. Cambridge University Press.
- (1999) Is America Breaking Apart?, with Charles Lindholm. Princeton University Press.
- (1998) The State of the Nation: Ernest Gellner and the Theory of Nationalism. Cambridge University Press.
- (1996) The Social Philosophy of Ernest Gellner, edited with I. C. Jarvie. Rodopi.
- (1996) International Orders. Polity Press.
- (1995) Civil Society: Theory, History, Comparison. Polity Press.
- (1994) Coercion and Consent: Studies on the Modern State. Polity Press.
- (1993) The State. Routledge. 3 vols.
- (1992) Transition to Modernity: Essays on Power, Wealth and Belief, with Ernest Gellner and I. C. Jarvie. Cambridge University Press.
- (1989) The State, with John Ikenberry. University of Minnesota Press.
- (1988) Europe and the Rise of Capitalism, edited with Jean Baechler and Michael Mann. Basil Blackwell.
- (1987) Liberalism: Politics, Ideology and the Market. University of North Carolina Press.
- (1986) States in History. Basil Blackwell.
- (1986) Rediscoveries: Some Neglected Modern European Political Thinkers. Oxford University Press.
- (1985) Powers and Liberties: The Causes and Consequences of the Rise of the West. Penguin.
- (1981) Diagnoses of Our Time: Six Views of Our Social Condition. Heinemann Educational Books.
- (1979) The Sociology of Literature. Longman.