William H. Sewell Jr.
Auteur de Logics of History: Social Theory and Social Transformation (Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning)
A propos de l'auteur
William H. Sewell Jr. is the Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Political Science and History at the University of Chicago.
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Œuvres de William H. Sewell Jr.
Logics of History: Social Theory and Social Transformation (Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning) (2005) 123 exemplaires
A Rhetoric of Bourgeois Revolution: The Abbé Sieyes and What is the Third Estate? (Bicentennial Reflections on the… (1994) 31 exemplaires
Capitalism and the Emergence of Civic Equality in Eighteenth-Century France (Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning) (2021) 10 exemplaires
Lavoro e rivoluzione in Francia il linguaggio operaio dall'ancien régime al 1848 (1987) 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
The Fate of "Culture": Geertz and Beyond (Representations Books) (1999) — Contributeur — 34 exemplaires
Workers in the Industrial Revolution: Recent Studies of Labor in the United States and Europe (1974) — Contributeur — 11 exemplaires
Rethinking Labor History: Essays on Discourse and Class Analysis (1993) — Contributeur — 8 exemplaires
Revolutionary Currents: Nation Building in the Transatlantic World (2004) — Contributeur — 7 exemplaires
Consciousness and class experience in nineteenth-century Europe (1979) — Contributeur — 7 exemplaires
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- Œuvres
- 7
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- 5
- Membres
- 264
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The book requires some familiarity with contemporary social science since the discussion often revolves around key terms such as "structure" and "culture". But aside from that requirement, the text is quite accessible even for an interested layman.
My one point of complaint is that the chapters are a bit disunited. Apparently most of them have been written as separate research papers and are published together here with minor modifications. There are some interconnecting themes between the chapters but there could have been many more if the book had been written as one project from start to finish.
Even so this book is definitely a thought-provoking and insightful piece of work and I recommend it to anyone with a general interest in history and social science.… (plus d'informations)