In his pathbreaking article ‘History and the Social Sciences: The Longue Durée, ‘ Fernand Braudel raised a call for the social sciences to overcome their disciplinary isolation from one another. Commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the article’s publication, the contributors to this volume do not just acknowledge their debt to the past; they also bear witness to how the crisis Braudel recognized a half century ago is no less of a crisis today. The contributions included here, from scholars in history, sociology, and geography, reflect the spirit and practice of the intellectual agenda espoused by Braudel, coming together around the concept of the
longue durée. Indeed, they are evidence of how the groundbreaking research originally championed by Braudel has been carried forward in world-systems analysis for a more socially relevant understanding of the planet and its future possibilities. The book concludes with a new translation of Braudel’s original article by famed sociologist Immanuel Wallerstein.
Cuprins
Introduction
Richard E. Lee
The Order of Historical Time: The
Longue Durée and Micro-History
Dale Tomich
History and Geography: Braudel’s “Extreme
Longue Durée” as Generics?
Peter J. Taylor
Dutch Capitalism and the Europe’s Great Frontier: The Baltic in the Ecological Revolution of the Long Seventeenth Century
Jason W. Moore
The Semiproletarian Household over the
Longue Durée of the
Modern World-System
Wilma A. Dunaway
In the Short Run Are We All Dead? A Political Ecology of the Development Climate
Philip Mc Michael
The
Longue Durée and the Status of “Superstructures”
Richard E. Lee
Nomads and Kings: State Formation in Asia over the
Longue Durée,
1250–1700
Ravi Arvind Palat
Long-Term Problems for the
Longue Durée in the Social Sciences
Eric Mielants
Journalism, History, and Eurocentrism:
Longue Durée and the Immediate in Braudel and Wallerstein
José da Mota Lopes
Appendix
History and the Social Sciences: The
Longue Durée
Fernand Braudel
Index
Despre autor
Richard E. Lee is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Fernand Braudel Center at Binghamton University, State University of New York. He is the editor of
Questioning Nineteenth-Century Assumptions about Knowledge, I: Determinism;
Questioning Nineteenth-Century Assumptions about Knowledge, II: Reductionism; and
Questioning Nineteenth-Century Assumptions about Knowledge, III: Dualism, all published by SUNY Press, and
Life and Times of Cultural Studies: The Politics and Transformation of the Structures of Knowledge. He is also the coeditor, with Immanuel Wallerstein, of
Overcoming the Two Cultures: Science versus the Humanities in the Modern World-System.
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