Engaging the Past - The Uses of History Across the Social Sciences

"How pertinent, as well as refreshing, to see the recent historical turn in each of the social sciences not only identified but thoughtfully analyzed."--Leon Fink, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

List of contents

Introduction / Eric H. Monkkonen 1

Histories for Anthropology: Ten Years of Historical Research and Writing by Anthropologists, 1980-1990 / Susan Kellogg 9

History and Economics / Hugh Rockoff 48

History and Sociology: The Lost Synthesis / Andrew Abbott 77

Politics and the Past: History, Behavioralism, and the Return to Institutionalism in American Political Science / David Brian Robertson 113

History and Geography: At the Intersection of Time an Space / Richard Dennis 154

Index 189

About the author

Eric H. Monkkonen

Product details

• Assisted by: Eric H Monkkonen (Editor), Eric H. Monkkonen (Editor)
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.04.1994
• EAN: 9780822314400
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-1440-0
• No. of pages: 208
• Weight: 408 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories