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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... mentalities has survived its own trial by ordeal.140 A similar problem provoked the pioneering study in the history of mentalities in the 1920s . This was the work of the French historian Marc Bloch , whose admiration for Durkheim has ...
... mentalities has survived its own trial by ordeal.140 A similar problem provoked the pioneering study in the history of mentalities in the 1920s . This was the work of the French historian Marc Bloch , whose admiration for Durkheim has ...
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... mentality ' , discussed by Lévy - Bruhl.141 In France the mentalities approach became popular with historians in the 1960s and inspired a whole shelf of studies . It was relatively slow to attract the British , however , and when it ...
... mentality ' , discussed by Lévy - Bruhl.141 In France the mentalities approach became popular with historians in the 1960s and inspired a whole shelf of studies . It was relatively slow to attract the British , however , and when it ...
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... mentalities might be called the problem of ' homogenization ' . To focus on collective mentalities is to risk ignoring variation at several different levels . In the first place , individuals do not think exactly alike . To this ...
... mentalities might be called the problem of ' homogenization ' . To focus on collective mentalities is to risk ignoring variation at several different levels . In the first place , individuals do not think exactly alike . To this ...
Contents
THEORISTS AND HISTORIANS | 1 |
MODELS AND METHODS | 36 |
CENTRAL CONCEPTS | 46 |
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