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You are currently browsing 1–10 of 92 new and published books in the subject of Historical Sociology — sorted by publish date from newer books to older books.

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New and Published Books

  1. Understanding European Movements

    New Social Movements, Global Justice Struggles, Anti-Austerity Protest

    Edited by Cristina Flesher Fominaya, Laurence Cox

    Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

    European social movements have been central to European history, politics, society and culture, and have had a global reach and impact. Yet they have rarely been taken on their own terms in the English-language literature, considered rather as counterpoints to the US experience. This has been...

    Published May 20th 2013 by Routledge

  2. Western India in the Nineteenth Century

    A study in the social history of Maharashtra

    By Ravinder Kumar

    Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge

  3. Spirals of Contention

    Why India was Partitioned in 1947

    By Satish Saberwal

    This study examines the social and psychological processes that led to the Partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947. It recognizes the long-term continuities in the idiom of conflict (as well as cooperation), and shows that, by 1900, the conflicts and animosities were gathering a...

    Published April 17th 2013 by Routledge India

  4. The Rise of the Technocrats

    A Social History

    By W.H.G. Armytage

    Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge

  5. The Leviathan of Wealth

    The Sutherland fortune in the industrial revolution

    By Eric Richards

    Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge

  6. Fragments of Modernity (Routledge Revivals)

    Theories of Modernity in the Work of Simmel, Kracauer and Benjamin

    By David Frisby

    Series: Routledge Revivals

    Fragments of Modernity, first published in 1985, provides a critical introduction to the work of three of the most original German thinkers of the early twentieth century. In their different ways, all three illuminated the experience of the modern urban life, whether in mid nineteenth-century Paris...

    Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge

  7. Philosophy of Science and Sociology

    From the Methodological Doctrine to Research Practice

    By Edmund Mokrzycki

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science

    Originally published in 1983. This book concentrates on the impact of philosophy of science on sociology and other disciplines. It argues that the impact of the philosophy of science on sociology from the rise of the Vienna Circle until the mid-1980s resulted in a deep-reaching and, in the author’s...

    Published April 9th 2013 by Routledge

  8. National Myths

    Constructed Pasts, Contested Presents

    Edited by Gérard Bouchard

    National myths are now seriously questioned in a number of societies. In the West, for instance, a number of factors have combined to destabilise the symbolic foundation of nations and collective identities. As a result, the diagnosis of a deep cultural crisis has become commonplace. Indeed, who...

    Published April 7th 2013 by Routledge

  9. Negotiating Decolonization in the United Nations

    Politics of Space, Identity, and International Community

    By Vrushali Patil

    Series: New Approaches in Sociology

    Combining discourse and comparative historical methods of analysis, this book explores how colonialists and anti-colonialists renegotiated transnational power relationships within the debates on decolonization in the United Nations from 1946-1960. Shrewdly bringing together Sociology, Women’s...

    Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge