History and Social TheoryA Choice Outstanding Academic Book for 1994 ?Burke's study is unique in that it distills many of the previous efforts to address the interface between history and social theory into a concentrated, elegantly written, and thought-provoking analysis of key problems. . . . Excellent, comprehensive index and bibliography. Highly recommended.'--Choice Burke reviews the emergence of the fields of history and social science and traces their tentative convergence in recent decades as he reappraises the current relations between them. |
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... famous ' poli- tical picture ' ( tableau politique ) of western France , in which he studied the relation between the local environment and the religious and political opinions of its inhabitants , arguing that ' there are political ...
... famous ' poli- tical picture ' ( tableau politique ) of western France , in which he studied the relation between the local environment and the religious and political opinions of its inhabitants , arguing that ' there are political ...
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... famous essay on the Italian Renaissance was explicitly concerned with ' the recurrent , the constant , the typical ' . Sir Lewis Namier studied ' why men went into Parliament ' in eighteenth- century England . Marc Bloch wrote a general ...
... famous essay on the Italian Renaissance was explicitly concerned with ' the recurrent , the constant , the typical ' . Sir Lewis Namier studied ' why men went into Parliament ' in eighteenth- century England . Marc Bloch wrote a general ...
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... famous article of the 1950s , R. H. Tawney argued that the English gentry rose in wealth , status and power in the century 1540– 1640.62 A sharp controversy followed , in which it became clear that participants sometimes confused the ...
... famous article of the 1950s , R. H. Tawney argued that the English gentry rose in wealth , status and power in the century 1540– 1640.62 A sharp controversy followed , in which it became clear that participants sometimes confused the ...
Contents
THEORISTS AND HISTORIANS | 1 |
MODELS AND METHODS | 36 |
CENTRAL CONCEPTS | 46 |
Copyright | |
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