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Book SynopsisA sociology collection reviewing the state-of-historical-study in a wide range of areas while showcasing the use of poststructuralist approaches to studying family, gender, war, protest & revolution, state-making, social provisions, colonialism, transitio
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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
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 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
