Historical Sociology Books

New and Published Books

1. 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 1st 2013 by Routledge
2. 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
3. The Army in Victorian Society

   Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge
4. A Social History of The French Revolution

   By Norman Hampson

   Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge
5. The Profession of English Letters

   By J.W. Saunders

   Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
6. Prelates and People

   Ecclesiastical Social Thought in England, 1783-1852

   By R.A. Soloway

   Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
7. Packhorse, Waggon and Post

   Land Carriage and Communications under the Tudors and Stuarts

   By J. Crofts

   Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
8. Heavens Below

   Utopian Experiments in England, 1560-1960

   By W.H.G. Armytage

   Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge
9. English Landed Society in the Nineteenth Century

   By F.M.L. Thompson

   Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge
10. The English Poor in the Eighteenth Century

    A Study in Social and Administrative History

    By Dorothy Marshall

    Published February 28th 2013 by Routledge