What is the use of social theory to historians, and of history to social theorists? In clear and energetic prose, a preeminent cultural historian here offers a far-reaching response to these deceptively simple questions. Peter Burke reviews the emergence of the fields of history and social science and traces their tentative convergence as he reappraises the relations between them.
Burke first examines what uses historians have made or might make of the models, methods, and concepts of the social sciences, and then analyzes some of the intellectual conflicts that are at the heart of the...
What is the use of social theory to historians, and of history to social theorists? In clear and energetic prose, a preeminent cultural historian h...
What is the use of social theory to historians, and of history to social theorists? In clear and energetic prose, a preeminent cultural historian here offers a far-reaching response to these deceptively simple questions. Peter Burke reviews the emergence of the fields of history and social science and traces their tentative convergence as he reappraises the relations between them.
Burke first examines what uses historians have made or might make of the models, methods, and concepts of the social sciences, and then analyzes some of the intellectual conflicts that are at the heart of...
What is the use of social theory to historians, and of history to social theorists? In clear and energetic prose, a preeminent cultural historian h...
