Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: Social Theory, Modernity and the Three Waves of Historical Sociology / Julia Adams, Elisabeth S. Clemens, and Ann Shola Orloff 1

Part I: Historical Sociology and Epistemological Underpinnings

The Action Turn? Comparative-Historical Inquiry beyond the Classical Models of Conduct / Richard Biernacki 75

Overlapping Territories and Intertwined Histories: Historical Sociology's Global Imagination / Zine Magubene 92

The Epistemological Unconscious of U.S. Sociology and the Transition to Post-Fordism: The Case of Historical Sociology / George Steinmetz 109

Part II: State Formation and Historical Sociology

The Return of the Repressed: Religion and the Political Unconscious of Historical Sociology / Philip S. Gorski 161

Social Provision and Regulation: Theories of States, Social Policies, and Modernity / Ann Shola Orloff 190

The Bureaucratization of States: Toward an Analytical Weberianism / Edgar Kiser and Justin Baer 225

Part III: History and Political Contention

Mars Revealed: The Entry of Ordinary People into War among the States / Meyer Kestnbaum 249

Historical Sociology and Collective Action / Roger V. Gould 286

Revolutions as Pathways to Modernity / Nader Sohrabi 300

Part IV: Capitalism, Modernity, and the Economic Realm

Historical Sociology and the Economy: Actors, Networks, and Context / Bruce G. Carruthers 333

The Great Debates: Transitions to Capitalisms / Rebecca Jean Emigh 355

The Professions: Prodigal Daughters of Modernity / Ming-Cheng M. Lo 381

Part V: Politics, History, and Collective Identities

Nations / Lyn Spillman and Russell Faeges 409

Citizenship Troubles: Genealogies of Struggle for the Soul of the Social / Margaret R. Somers 438

Ethnicity without Groups / Rogers Brubake 470

Afterword: Logics of History? Agency, Multiplicity, and Incoherence in the Explanation of Change / Elisabeth S. Clemens 493

References 517

Contributors 599

Index 603

Julia Adams

Richard Biernacki

Zine Magubane

George Steinmetz

Philip S. Gorski

Edgar Kiser

Meyer Kestnbaum

Roger Gould

Nader Soharbi

Bruce Carruthers

Rebecca Jean Emigh

Ming-Chang Miriam M. Lo

Lyn Spillman

Rogers Brubaker

Elisabeth S. Clemens

Ann Shola Orloff

Justin Baer

Russell Faeges

“ [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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