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This book contains an overviews of major historical political sociologists. Each paper consider the nature of the questions that were posed by the eminent scholar, the ways in which theoretical ideas and historical evidence were brought to bear upon one another in answering these questions, the use of comparisons across historical cases; and, more generally, the strategies each scholar had devised to design historical investigations and communicate to them to relevant audiences.

Contents:

1. Sociology's Historical Imagination, By Theda Skocpol

2. The Social and Historical Landscape of Marc Bloch

3. Beyond the Economistic Fallacy: The Holistic Social Science of Karl Polanyi, by Fred Block and Margaret Somers.

4. Configurations in History: The Historical Sociology of S. N. Eisenstadt, by Gary Hamilton

5. Theoretical Generalization and Historical Particularly in the Comparative Sociology of Reihnard Bendix, by Dietrich Rueschemeyer

6. Destined Pathways: The Historical Sociology of Perry Anderson, By Mary Fulbrook and Theda Skocpol

7. E. Ph. Thompson: Understanding the Process of History, by Hellen Kay Trimberger

8. Charles Tilly's Collective Action, by Lynn Hunt

9. The World System of Immanuel Waalersttein: Sociology and Politics as History, by Charles Ragin and Daniel Chirot

10. Discovering Facts and Values: The Historical Sociology of Barrington Moore, by Dennis Smith

11. Emerging Agendas and Recurrent Strategies in Historical Sociology, by Theda Skocpol.

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