Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction: Social Theory, Modernity, and the Three Waves of Historical Sociology1 1
5. part i Historical Sociology and Epistemological Underpinnings
6. The Action Turn? Comparative-Historical Inquiry beyond the Classical Models of Conduct 75
7. Overlapping Territories and Intertwined Histories: Historical Sociology’s Global Imagination 92
8. The Epistemological Unconscious of U.S. Sociology and the Transition to Post-Fordism: The Case of Historical Sociology 109
9. part ii State Formation and Historical Sociology
10. The Return of the Repressed: Religion and the Political Unconscious of Historical Sociology 161
11. Social Provision and Regulation: Theories of States, Social Policies, and Modernity 190
12. The Bureaucratization of States: Toward an Analytical Weberianism 225
13. part iii History and Political Contention
14. Mars Revealed: The Entry of Ordinary People into War among States 249
15. Historical Sociology and Collective Action 286
16. Revolutions as Pathways to Modernity 300
17. part iv Capitalism, Modernity, and the Economic Realm
18. Historical Sociology and the Economy: Actors, Networks, and Context 333
19. The Great Debates: Transitions to Capitalisms 355
20. The Professions: Prodigal Daughters of Modernity 381
21. part v Politics, History, and Collective Identities
22. Nations 409
23. Citizenship Troubles: Genealogies of Struggle for the Soul of the Social 438
24. Ethnicity without Groups 470
25. Afterword: Logics of History? Agency, Multiplicity, and Incoherence in the Explanation of Change 493
26. References 517
27. Contributors 599
28. Index 603