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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... nineteenth - century historian Leopold von Ranke were still dominant . In similar fashion some historians still speak of sociology as if it were stuck in the age of Auguste Comte , in the mid - nineteenth - century phase of grand ...
... nineteenth - century historian Leopold von Ranke were still dominant . In similar fashion some historians still speak of sociology as if it were stuck in the age of Auguste Comte , in the mid - nineteenth - century phase of grand ...
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... nineteenth - century historians narrower and even in a sense more old- fashioned in their choice of subject than their eighteenth - century predecessors . Some of them rejected social history because it could not be studied ...
... nineteenth - century historians narrower and even in a sense more old- fashioned in their choice of subject than their eighteenth - century predecessors . Some of them rejected social history because it could not be studied ...
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... century as a reaction to the Protestant Reformation . Again , a number of movements for reform in the nineteenth century , the ' Young Turks ' in the Ottoman Empire , for example , or the Meiji ' restoration ' in Japan , may be seen as ...
... century as a reaction to the Protestant Reformation . Again , a number of movements for reform in the nineteenth century , the ' Young Turks ' in the Ottoman Empire , for example , or the Meiji ' restoration ' in Japan , may be seen as ...
Contents
THEORISTS AND HISTORIANS | 1 |
MODELS AND METHODS | 36 |
CENTRAL CONCEPTS | 46 |
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