As Sociology Meets History

Overview

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Exhortation.
1. Sociology, meet history.
2. Computing history.
Appreciation.
3. Homans, humans, and history.
4. Useless Durkheim.
Application.
5. War and peasant rebellion in Seventeenth-century France.
6. How (and, to some extent, why) to study British contention.
Exploration.
7. Proletarianization : theory and research.
8. States, taxes, and proletarians.
Conclusion.
9. Looking forward... into a rearview mirror.