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Book SynopsisTrade Review"How pertinent, as well as refreshing, to see the recent historical turn in each of the social sciences not only identified but thoughtfully analyzed."—Leon Fink, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
"The past twenty-five years have witnessed a remarkable upsurge of historical research—and historical thinking—across the social sciences, transforming knowledge about phenomena ranging from capitalist development, to welfare states, to professions and organizations. The essays collected here range from the comprehensive to the quirky. They chart many of the rich insights of historical social science, and display the challenges and limits of interdisciplinary dialogue. Students and teachers alike will find this collection a vital recource, as they chart new frontiers for theory and investigation."—Theda Skocpol, Harvard University
Table of ContentsIntroduction / Eric H. Monkkonen 1
Histories for Anthropology: Ten Years of Historical Research and Writing by Anthropologists, 1980-1990 / Susan Kellogg 9
History and Economics / Hugh Rockoff 48
History and Sociology: The Lost Synthesis / Andrew Abbott 77
Politics and the Past: History, Behavioralism, and the Return to Institutionalism in American Political Science / David Brian Robertson 113
History and Geography: At the Intersection of Time an Space / Richard Dennis 154
Index 189
