Twenty Years of the Journal of Historical Sociology: Volume 2: Challenging the Field

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Pub. Date: 2009-03-01
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

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 nature of undertaking interdisciplinary work within history and the social sciences. A wide exploration of the historiographical, taking us beyond Europe and often highlighting unconventional approaches to the disciplines.

Table of Contents

Foreword: A Curious Little Magazine
Introduction
Violence and Resistance in the Americas: The Legacy of Conquest
The Stars Beneath Alabama (For Molly Jarboe)
Reported Speech and Other Kinds of Testimony
Modernism and the Machine Farmer
Dutchman Ghosts and the History Mystery: Ritual, Colonizer, and Colonized Interpretations of the 1763 Berbice Slave Rebellion
The Lips of the Dead and the 'Kiss of Life': The Contemporary Deathbed and the Aesthetic of CPR
The Survivors: My Last Sixty-six Long-playing Records - For Ray Smith and Bob Glass
The Strange Career of the Canadian Beaver: Anthropomorphic Discourses and Imperial History
A Response to Margot Francis
Corruption in Low Places: Sewers and Succession to Political Office
On the local construction of statistical knowledge: Making up the 1861 census of the Canadas
Borders and Boundaries of State and Self at the End of Empire
Making Algeria French and Unmaking French Algeria
Living In and With Deep Time. Public Lecture: XII
Index
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