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Over the last twenty years the Journal of Historical Sociology has redefined what historical sociology can be. These essays by internationally distinguished historians, sociologists, anthropologists and geographers bring together the very best of the JHS. Volume 1 focuses on the British state, Volume 2 on the journal's wider interdisciplinary challenges.
  • The second in a two-volume anthology representing the best articles published in The Journal of Historical Sociology over the last twenty years.
  • Includes essays, debates and responses written by internationally distinguished historians, sociologists, anthropologists and geographers as well as by pioneering newer scholars have been influential in challenging and redefining the field of historical sociology.
  • Spans a range of issues and topics that combine rich empirical scholarship with sophisticated theoretical engagement, bringing together the very best of the JHS.
  • Challenges the natur

    Table of Contents

    Preface: A Curious Little Magazine 1

    An Introduction: Volume 2, Challenging the Field 5
    YOKE-SUM WONG

    Violence and Resistance in the Americas: The Legacy of Conquest 9
    MICHAEL TAUSSIG
    JHS Vol. 3, No. 3, 1990

    The Stars Beneath Alabama (For Molly Jarboe) 25
    ALLEN SHELTON
    JHS Vol. 19, No. 4, 2006

    Reported Speech and Other Kinds of Testimony 56
    MEGAN VAUGHAN
    JHS Vol. 13, No. 3, 2000

    Modernism and the Machine Farmer 84
    ROD BANTJES
    JHS Vol. 13, No. 2, 2000

    Dutchman Ghosts and the History Mystery: Ritual, Colonizer, and Colonized Interpretations of the 1763 Berbice Slave Rebellion 106
    BRACKETTE F. WILLIAMS
    JHS Vol. 3, No. 2, 1990

    The Lips of the Dead and the ‘Kiss of Life’: The Contemporary Deathbed and the Aesthetic of CPR 139
    JOHN TERCIER
    JHS Vol. 15, No. 3, 2002

    The Survivors: My Last Sixty-Six Long-Playing Records – For Ray Smith and Bob Glass 185
    COLIN RICHMOND
    JHS Vol. 12, No. 1, 1999

    The Strange Career of the Canadian Beaver: Anthropomorphic Discourses and Imperial History 202
    MARGOT FRANCIS
    JHS Vol. 17, No.s 2/3, 2004

    A Response to Margot Francis 233
    JACQUES BOVET
    JHS Vol. 18, No.s 1/2, 2005

    Corruption in Low Places: Sewers and Succession to Political Office 236
    DANIEL NUGENT
    JHS Vol. 14, No. 2, 2001

    On the local construction of statistical knowledge: Making up the 1861 census of the Canadas 253
    BRUCE CURTIS
    JHS Vol. 7, No. 4, 1994

    Borders and Boundaries of State and Self at the End of Empire 273
    MICHAEL KEARNEY
    JHS Vol. 4, No. 1, 1991

    Making Algeria French and Unmaking French Algeria 297
    DAVID PROCHASKA
    JHS Vol. 3, No. 4, 1990

    Living In and With Deep Time 321 Public Lecture, XII David Nichol Smith Conference, July 19, 2004
    GREG DENING
    JHS Vol. 18, No. 4, 2005

Twenty Years of the Journal of Historical

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      Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 12/09/2008
      ISBN13: 9781405179348, 978-1405179348
      ISBN10: 1405179341

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Over the last twenty years the Journal of Historical Sociology has redefined what historical sociology can be. These essays by internationally distinguished historians, sociologists, anthropologists and geographers bring together the very best of the JHS. Volume 1 focuses on the British state, Volume 2 on the journal's wider interdisciplinary challenges.
      • The second in a two-volume anthology representing the best articles published in The Journal of Historical Sociology over the last twenty years.
      • Includes essays, debates and responses written by internationally distinguished historians, sociologists, anthropologists and geographers as well as by pioneering newer scholars have been influential in challenging and redefining the field of historical sociology.
      • Spans a range of issues and topics that combine rich empirical scholarship with sophisticated theoretical engagement, bringing together the very best of the JHS.
      • Challenges the natur

        Table of Contents

        Preface: A Curious Little Magazine 1

        An Introduction: Volume 2, Challenging the Field 5
        YOKE-SUM WONG

        Violence and Resistance in the Americas: The Legacy of Conquest 9
        MICHAEL TAUSSIG
        JHS Vol. 3, No. 3, 1990

        The Stars Beneath Alabama (For Molly Jarboe) 25
        ALLEN SHELTON
        JHS Vol. 19, No. 4, 2006

        Reported Speech and Other Kinds of Testimony 56
        MEGAN VAUGHAN
        JHS Vol. 13, No. 3, 2000

        Modernism and the Machine Farmer 84
        ROD BANTJES
        JHS Vol. 13, No. 2, 2000

        Dutchman Ghosts and the History Mystery: Ritual, Colonizer, and Colonized Interpretations of the 1763 Berbice Slave Rebellion 106
        BRACKETTE F. WILLIAMS
        JHS Vol. 3, No. 2, 1990

        The Lips of the Dead and the ‘Kiss of Life’: The Contemporary Deathbed and the Aesthetic of CPR 139
        JOHN TERCIER
        JHS Vol. 15, No. 3, 2002

        The Survivors: My Last Sixty-Six Long-Playing Records – For Ray Smith and Bob Glass 185
        COLIN RICHMOND
        JHS Vol. 12, No. 1, 1999

        The Strange Career of the Canadian Beaver: Anthropomorphic Discourses and Imperial History 202
        MARGOT FRANCIS
        JHS Vol. 17, No.s 2/3, 2004

        A Response to Margot Francis 233
        JACQUES BOVET
        JHS Vol. 18, No.s 1/2, 2005

        Corruption in Low Places: Sewers and Succession to Political Office 236
        DANIEL NUGENT
        JHS Vol. 14, No. 2, 2001

        On the local construction of statistical knowledge: Making up the 1861 census of the Canadas 253
        BRUCE CURTIS
        JHS Vol. 7, No. 4, 1994

        Borders and Boundaries of State and Self at the End of Empire 273
        MICHAEL KEARNEY
        JHS Vol. 4, No. 1, 1991

        Making Algeria French and Unmaking French Algeria 297
        DAVID PROCHASKA
        JHS Vol. 3, No. 4, 1990

        Living In and With Deep Time 321 Public Lecture, XII David Nichol Smith Conference, July 19, 2004
        GREG DENING
        JHS Vol. 18, No. 4, 2005

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