Historical Sociology Books

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1. Max Weber: Collected Methodological Writings

   Edited by Sam Whimster

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-47898-4 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. An Introduction to Chinese Sociology

   By Xiaogang Wu

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-58917-8 | Paperback (Routledge)

3. Gabriel Tarde: Sociology, Philosophy, Psychology

   Edited by Matei Candea

   The recent surge of interest in 19th century sociologist Gabriel Tarde, fuelled in the English-speaking world primarily by second-hand discussions of his work, has produced and will continue to produce a broad demand for full English language versions of the author’s key texts. The proposed...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-60275-4 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   A History of Europe (Routledge Revivals): From the Invasions to the XVI Century

   By Henri Pirenne

   First published in 1939, this is a reissue of Henri Pirenne's extremely popular and influential history of Europe in the middle ages. It begins with the Barbarian and Musulman invasions in the fifth century AD, which signalled the end of the Roman world in the West, and&...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-59990-0 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Social Struggles in the Middle Ages (Routledge Revivals)

   By Max Beer

   First published in 1924, Max Beer's work comprises the history of social thought from the fourth to the fourteenth century. He considers in detail the heretical social movement and the story is brought up to the period of the peasants' wars and the social struggles in the towns, which...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-59991-7 | Paperback (Routledge)

6. Chaucer and the Social Contest

   By Peggy Knapp

   First published in 1990, Chaucer and the Social Contest takes a fresh view of The Canterby Tales, by placing the storytelling contest among the Canterbury pilgrims within the larger social contests in the changing England of the late fourteenth century. The author focuses on three crucial fields of...

   January 2011 | 978-0-415-61603-4 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Memories of Class (Routledge Revivals): The Pre-history and After-life of Class

   By Zygmunt Bauman

   First published in 1982, Professor Bauman’s discussion of the mechanism of class formation and institutionalisation of class conflict argues that our understanding of changes in social and political structure has been hindered by the freezing of concepts of class in the ice-age of industrial...

   November 2010 | 978-0-415-57301-6 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Socialism the Active Utopia (Routledge Revivals)

   By Zygmunt Bauman

   Rather than contributing to the long-standing discussion about the characteristics of the society that socialism proposes to establish, this Routledge Revival, initially published in 1976, aims to explore the impact of the ‘living utopia’ of socialism on the development of modern society. It...

   November 2010 | 978-0-415-57308-5 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Postmodernized Simmel (Routledge Revivals)

   By Deena Weinstein, Michael Weinstein

   Originally published in 1993, this book opens a new and major line of interpretation, showing that Georg Simmel is the essential sociologist of the postmodern age. The authors trace the important contributions that Simmel's writings can make to current studies of intellectual ethics, textual...

   November 2010 | 978-0-415-60925-8 | Hardback (Routledge)
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    The Constitution of Poverty (Routledge Revivals): Towards a genealogy of liberal governance

    By Dean Mitchell

    First published in 1991, This book looks at how capitalism has affected the organization of the poor. It also explores what the links are between notions of poverty and notions personal responsibility, philanthropy, morality and state forms. An intruiging work for anyone interested in the...

    November 2010 | 978-0-415-60956-2 | Hardback (Routledge)