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Book SynopsisThis inter-disciplinary volume explores the benefits of historical understanding in leading disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, including economics, politics, international relations, sociology, philosophy, law, literature and anthropology, and shows how the relevance of historical approaches has changed and shifted over time.
Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Law and history, history and law Michael Lobban; 2. History, law, and the rediscovery of social theory Samuel Moyn; 3. The uses of history in the study of international politics Jennifer Pitts; 4. International relations theory and modern international order: the case of refugees Mira Siegelberg; 5. The Delphi syndrome: using history in the social sciences Stathis Kalyvas and Daniel Fedorowycz; 6. Power in narrative and narratives of power in historical sociology Hazem Kandil; 7. History and normativity in political theory: the case of Rawls Richard Bourke; 8. Political philosophy and the uses of history Quentin Skinner; 9. The relationship between philosophy and its history Susan James; 10. When reason does not see you: feminism at the intersection of history and philosophy Hannah Dawson; 11. On (lost and found) analytical history in political science Ira Katznelson; 12. Making history: poetry and prosopopoeia Cathy Shrank; 13. Reloading the British Romantic canon: the historical editing of literary texts Pamela Clemit; 14. Economics and history: analysing serfdom Sheilagh Ogilvie; 15. The return of depression economics: Paul Krugman and the 21st-century crisis of American democracy Adam Tooze; 16. Anthropology and the turn to history Joel Isaac.
