Forthcoming Historical Sociology Books

Forthcoming Books

1. The Attack on Feudalism in Eighteenth-Century France

   By J.Q.C. Mackrell

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. An Imperial War and the British Working Class

   Working-Class Attitudes and Reactions to the Boer War, 1899-1902

   By Richard Price

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
3. The Trade in Lunacy

   A Study of Private Madhouses in England in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

   By William Ll. Parry-Jones

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
4. Evidence and Explanation in Social Science

   An Inter-disciplinary Approach

   Edited by Gerald Studdert-Kennedy

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science

   Originally published in 1975. The main concern of this book is the nature of the gap between the theoretical issues, raised at an abstract level by social scientists, and their facts, the material organized in an empirical analysis. The author draws on material from several disciplines to explore...

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
5. The Purchase of Pardise

   The social function of aristocratic benevolence, 1307-1485

   By Joel T. Rosenthal

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
6. The Paradigm of International Social Development

   Ideologies, Development Systems and Policy Approaches

   By Murli Desai

   Series: Routledge Studies in Development and Society

   This book takes a historical approach to analyse ideologies, policy approaches and development systems that have constructed what is known as international social development. Its aims are to review the social construction of "development" by tracing the historical dynamics of the modern ideologies...

   To Be Published June 30th 2013 by Routledge
7. Sanskrit, Sociology and Anti-Imperial Struggle

   The Life of Shyamji Krishnavarma (1857-1930)

   By Harald Fischer-Tiné

   Series: Pathfinders

   The book explores the various stages of Shyamji Krishnavarma’s life in India and abroad. Particular emphasis is placed on his role as cultural mediator who exerted a formative influence, on both the European view of India as well as the Indian reception of Western political thought....

   To Be Published July 30th 2013 by Routledge India
8. Religious Toleration in England

   1787-1833

   By Ursula Henriques

   To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge
9. Celebrity Culture

   Second Edition

   By Ellis Cashmore

   Over the past few decades, the public obsession with celebrity has exploded. There has also been a huge growth in the number of college and university courses and degrees on celebrity studies and celebrity journalism. Ellis Cashmore’s Celebrity/Culture was among the first textbooks to address this...

   To Be Published September 30th 2013 by Routledge
10. Historical Tales and National Identity

    An Introduction to Narrative Social Psychology

    By János László

    Social psychologists argue that people’s past weighs on their present. Consistent with this view, Historical Tales and National Identity outlines a theory and a methodology which provide tools for better understanding the relation between the present psychological condition of a society and...

    To Be Published September 30th 2013 by Routledge