1st Edition

The Dialectics of Inquiry Across the Historical Social Sciences

By David Baronov Copyright 2014
    332 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    330 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    This book turns conventional global-historical analysis on its head, demonstrating, first, that local events cannot be derived — logically or historically — from large-scale, global-historical structures and processes and, second, that it is these structures and processes that, in fact, emerge from our analysis of local events.

    Part I: Preliminaries 1.The Saga of Late Modernity Part II: The Analysis 2.The Jena Chair 3.The New York City Draft Riots (July 1863) 4. The Yí River Flood 5. The Mozambican AIDS Part III: Commentary 6. Commentary on the Analysis. Appendix A: Accounts of the New York City Draft Riots Sorted by Ontological Content. Appendix B: Accounts of the Yí River Flood Sorted by Ontological Content

    Biography

    David Baronov is Professor of Sociology at St. John Fisher College.