Over the last twenty years the Journal of Historical
Sociology has redefined what historical sociology can be. These
essays by internationally distinguished historians, sociologists,
anthropologists and geographers bring together the very best of the
JHS. Volume 1 focuses on the British state, Volume 2 on the
journal’s wider interdisciplinary challenges.
* The second in a two-volume anthology representing the best
articles published in The Journal of Historical Sociology
over the last twenty years.
* Includes essays, debates and responses written by
internationally distinguished historians, sociologists,
anthropologists and geographers as well as by pioneering newer
scholars have been influential in challenging and redefining the
field of historical sociology.
* Spans a range of issues and topics that combine rich empirical
scholarship with sophisticated theoretical engagement, bringing
together the very best of the JHS.
* Challenges the nature of undertaking interdisciplinary work
within history and the social sciences.
* A wide exploration of the historiographical, taking us beyond
Europe and often highlighting unconventional approaches to the
disciplines.
Tabela de Conteúdo
Preface: A Curious Little Magazine 1
An Introduction: Volume 2, Challenging the Field 5
YOKE-SUM WONG
Violence and Resistance in the Americas: The Legacy of Conquest 9
MICHAEL TAUSSIG
JHS Vol. 3, No. 3, 1990
The Stars Beneath Alabama (For Molly Jarboe) 25
ALLEN SHELTON
JHS Vol. 19, No. 4, 2006
Reported Speech and Other Kinds of Testimony 56
MEGAN VAUGHAN
JHS Vol. 13, No. 3, 2000
Modernism and the Machine Farmer 84
ROD BANTJES
JHS Vol. 13, No. 2, 2000
Dutchman Ghosts and the History Mystery: Ritual, Colonizer, and Colonized Interpretations of the 1763 Berbice Slave Rebellion 106
BRACKETTE F. WILLIAMS
JHS Vol. 3, No. 2, 1990
The Lips of the Dead and the ‘Kiss of Life’: The Contemporary Deathbed and the Aesthetic of CPR 139
JOHN TERCIER
JHS Vol. 15, No. 3, 2002
The Survivors: My Last Sixty-Six Long-Playing Records – For Ray Smith and Bob Glass 185
COLIN RICHMOND
JHS Vol. 12, No. 1, 1999
The Strange Career of the Canadian Beaver: Anthropomorphic Discourses and Imperial History 202
MARGOT FRANCIS
JHS Vol. 17, No.s 2/3, 2004
A Response to Margot Francis 233
JACQUES BOVET
JHS Vol. 18, No.s 1/2, 2005
Corruption in Low Places: Sewers and Succession to Political Office 236
DANIEL NUGENT
JHS Vol. 14, No. 2, 2001
On the local construction of statistical knowledge: Making up the 1861 census of the Canadas 253
BRUCE CURTIS
JHS Vol. 7, No. 4, 1994
Borders and Boundaries of State and Self at the End of Empire 273
MICHAEL KEARNEY
JHS Vol. 4, No. 1, 1991
Making Algeria French and Unmaking French Algeria 297
DAVID PROCHASKA
JHS Vol. 3, No. 4, 1990
Living In and With Deep Time 321 Public Lecture, XII David Nichol Smith Conference, July 19, 2004
GREG DENING
JHS Vol. 18, No. 4, 2005
Sobre o autor
Yoke-Sum Wong is a Lecturer in Sociology at Lancaster University, UK.
Derek Sayer is Professor of Cultural History at Lancaster University, UK. He is the author of ten books including The Coasts of Bohemia: A Czech History, Capitalism and Modernity, and with Philip Corrigan, The Great Arch.
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