Handbook of Historical Sociology

Gerard Delanty is Reader in Sociology at the University of Liverpool

• Introduction - Gerard Delanty and Engin F IsinReorienting Historical SociologyPART ONE: FOUNDATIONSKarl Marx and Historical Sociology - Duncan KellyMax Weber and the Interpretative Tradition - Robert HoltonEvolutionary and Functionalist Historical Sociology - John Holmwood and Maureen O′ MalleyThe Annales, Braudel and Historical Sociology - Peter BurkeCivilizational Complexes and Processes - John MandaliosElias, Nelson and EisenstadtPART TWO: APPROACHESHistorical Materialist Sociology and Revolutions - George C ComminelTheories That Won′t Pass Away - Wolfgang Kn[um]oblThe Never-ending Story of Modernization TheoryHistorical Geography and Historical Sociology - Susan W FriedmanOur Honest Toil and the Spatial TurnInstitutional History - Chris SmajeComparative Approaches to Race and CasteCultural History Is Dead (Long Live the Hydra) - John R HallAn Intellectual History Meets Historical Sociology - Peter WagnerHistorical Sociology after the Linguistic TurnPrologue for a Genealogy of War and Peace - Mitchell DeanGenealogical ApproachesSubaltern Studies and Post-Colonial Historiography - Dipesh ChakrabartyPART THREE: THEMESThe Cultural Logic of Historical Periodization - Peter TooheyEast and West - Johann P ArnasonFrom Invidious Dichotomy to Incomplete DeconstructionClasses and Nations in Recent Historical Sociology - Robert Fine and Daniel CherniloThe Formation of the Modern State and the Institutionalization of Rule - Gianfranco PoggiThe Evolution of Parliaments - Tom R Burns and Masoud KamaliA Comparative, Historical Perspective on Assemblies and Political Decision-makingSocial Movements and Democratization - Klaus EderThe Persistence of Nationalism - Gerard DelantyModernity and Discourses of the NationArchitecturing Modern Nations - Paul JonesArchitecture and the StateHistorical Sociology of the City - Engin F IsinHistorical Memory - Bernhard Giesen and Kay JungeGender and Patriarchy in Historical Sociology - Pavla MillerHistorical Sociology of Religion - Bryan S TurnerPolitics and ModernityFrom Moral Science to Moral Regulation - Alan HuntSocial Theory′s Encounter with the Moral DomainAfterword - Craig CalhounWhy Historical Sociology?

`The overall conception of the volume is absolutely splendid, and the editors skilfully place the material in the context of disciplinary and post-disciplinary developments in sociology. This is a major contribution to the field, as well as a comprehensive and reliable guide to its main components′ - William Outhwaite, Professor of Sociology, School of European Studies, University of Sussex`It is hard to think of anything that has been left out in this masterly survey of contemporary historical sociology. The editors have done a superb job in the selection of both themes and contributors. We now at last have an up-to-date book to assign in our graduate courses on comparative historical sociology. There’s really nothing else like it out there.... The editors’ introduction is one of the best things I have read on how the field developed, and the problems it has encountered′ - Krishan Kumar, William R Kenan, Jr Professor of Sociology, University of Virginia.′The range of topics covered and the number of distinguished scholars who have contributed to the handbook is impressive, with leading figures such as Bryan S Turner, John R Hall, Gianfranco Poggi and Craig Calhoun among the contributors to a book that covers areas as diverse as post-colonial historiography and the historical sociology of the city… the handbook fills a void within the sizable literature on historical sociology and undoubtedly will be a useful addition to graduate reading lists′ - The British Journal of Sociology