Historical Sociology Books

New and Published Books

1. 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 December 30th 2012 by Routledge India
2. Some Early and Later Houses of Pity (Routledge Revivals)

   By John Hobson

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   From around the eleventh century until the Reformation, a close connection between the Church and hospitals was formed as they became a refuge for the ill, ostracised and poor. First published in 1926, John Morrison Hobson presents a fascinating survey of the hospitals and almshouses found...

   Published December 16th 2012 by Routledge
3. G.H. Mead

   A Reader

   By G. H. Mead

   Edited by Filipe Carreira da Silva

   Series: Routledge Classics in Sociology

   This book introduces social scientists to the ideas of George Herbert Mead (1863-1931) - one of the most original yet neglected thinkers of early twentieth century sociology. Mead is an exceptional case amongst sociological classics in that, until now, there has been no comprehensive reader of his...

   Published December 10th 2012 by Routledge
4. A Realist Theory of Art History

   By Ian Verstegen

   Series: Ontological Explorations

   As the theoretical alignments within academia shift, this book introduces a surprising variety of realism to abolish the old positivist-theory dichotomy that has haunted Art History. Demanding frankly the referential detachment of the objects under study, the book proposes a stratified,...

   Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge
5. History and Society

   Essays by R.H. Tawney

   Edited by R.H. Tawney

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   R. H. Tawney believed that the subject of economic history raises questions which touch the fundamental concerns of all thinking people. By setting economic development firmly within the framework of cultural and political life, he provided an alternative to the recent fragmentation of economic...

   Published November 21st 2012 by Routledge
6. Milk, Modernity and the Making of the Human

   Purifying the Social

   By Richie Nimmo

   Series: CRESC

   This book undertakes a critique of the pervasive notion that human beings are separate from and elevated above the nonhuman world and explores its role in the constitution of modernity. The book presents a socio-material analysis of the British milk industry in the late nineteenth and early...

   Published November 12th 2012 by Routledge
7. Women as Mothers in Pre-Industrial England

   Edited by Valerie Fildes

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Women's History

   Originally published in 1990, this book met the rising interest in the subject of women in pre-industrial England, bringing together a group of scholars with diverse and wide-ranging interests; experts in social and medical history, demography, women’s studies, and the history of the family, whose...

   Published October 9th 2012 by Routledge
8. The Technological State in Indonesia

   The Co-constitution of High Technology and Authoritarian Politics

   By Sulfikar Amir

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series

   Using a historical sociology approach, this book illustrates the formation of the technological state in Indonesia during the New Order period (1966-1998). It explores the nexus between power, high technology, development, and authoritarianism situated in the Southeast Asian context. The book...

   Published September 17th 2012 by Routledge
9. Sociology, Religion and Grace

   By Arpad Szakolczai

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   Grace is a central concept of theology, while the term also has a wide range of meanings in many fields. For the first time in book format, the sociology of grace (or enchantment) is comprehensively explained in detail, with fascinating results. The author’s writings on this topic take...

   Published August 1st 2012 by Routledge
10. Mobility, Space and Culture

    By Peter Merriman

    Series: International Library of Sociology

    Over the past ten to fifteen years there has emerged an increasing concern with mobility in the social sciences and humanities. In Mobility, Space and Culture, Peter Merriman provides an important and timely contribution to the mobilities turn in the social sciences, encouraging academics to...

    Published June 17th 2012 by Routledge