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“ [Remaking Modernity] provide[s] an important indicator of the type of issues that historically oriented sociologists will be addressing over the next few decades. Recommended. — S.C. Ward, Choice
“[T]he editors and their authors have produced an expansive survey of recent work in historical-comparative analysis.” — Charles Tilly, History and Theory
“[T]he social sciences and history only thrive through debates. In stirring up the discussion in a provocative way [Adams, Clemens, and Orloff] stimulated the ‘rethinking’ of this wonderful discipline: historical sociology. Let us accept the challenge and join the debate!” — Marjolein ‘t Hart, International Review of Social History
“This book allows specialists and nonspecialists to see the state of the art in historical sociology; it serves as an outstanding demonstration for graduate students to learn what is happening in the field and offers readers a chance to see some of the best minds in the field at the top of their game.” — William G. Roy, American Journal of Sociology
“ [Remaking Modernity] provide[s] an important indicator of the type of issues that historically oriented sociologists will be addressing over the next few decades. Recommended. —S.C. Ward, Choice
“[T]he editors and their authors have produced an expansive survey of recent work in historical-comparative analysis.” —Charles Tilly, History and Theory
“[T]he social sciences and history only thrive through debates. In stirring up the discussion in a provocative way [Adams, Clemens, and Orloff] stimulated the ‘rethinking’ of this wonderful discipline: historical sociology. Let us accept the challenge and join the debate!” —Marjolein ‘t Hart, International Review of Social History
“This book allows specialists and nonspecialists to see the state of the art in historical sociology; it serves as an outstanding demonstration for graduate students to learn what is happening in the field and offers readers a chance to see some of the best minds in the field at the top of their game.” —William G. Roy, American Journal of Sociology
“Remaking Modernity is the best representation available of the large and excellent generation of American historical sociologists now becoming prominent in the discipline.” — Craig Calhoun, President of the Social Science Research Council
“Here, all in one volume, is the best of the rising generation of historical sociologists, applying their craft to themselves, reflecting on their antecedents in order to chart our discipline’s futures. Ranging across multiple fields, wrestling with the Marxist-inspired iconoclasm of second-wave historical sociology, this is sure to become a definitive text of the third wave.” — Michael Burawoy, University of California, Berkeley
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The contributors represent a wide variety of theoretical orientations and a broad spectrum of understandings of what constitutes historical sociology. They address such topics as religion, war, citizenship, markets, professions, gender and welfare, colonialism, ethnicity, bureaucracy, revolutions, collective action, and the modernist social sciences themselves. Remaking Modernity includes a significant introduction in which the editors consider prior orientations in historical sociology in order to analyze the field’s resurgence. They show how current research is building on and challenging previous work through attention to institutionalism, rational choice, the cultural turn, feminist theories and approaches, and colonialism and the racial formations of empire.
Contributors
Julia Adams
Justin Baer
Richard Biernacki
Bruce Carruthers
Elisabeth Clemens
Rebecca Jean Emigh
Russell Faeges
Philip Gorski
Roger Gould
Meyer Kestnbaum
Edgar Kiser
Ming-Cheng Lo
Zine Magubane
Ann Shola Orloff
Nader Sohrabi
Margaret Somers
Lyn Spillman
George Steinmetz
Julia Adams is Professor of Sociology at Yale University. She is the author of The Familial State: Ruling Families and Merchant Capitalism in Early Modern Europe.
Elisabeth Clemens is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago. She is the author of The People’s Lobby: Organizational Innovation and the Rise of the Interest Group.
Ann Shola Orloff is Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University. Her most recent book is States, Markets, Families: Gender, Social Policy, and Liberalism in Australia, Canada, Great Britain, and the United States (with Julia O’Connor and Sheila Shaver).
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