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Sociology and Empire
The Imperial Entanglements of a Discipline
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Edited by:
George Steinmetz
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English
Published/Copyright:
2013
About this book
The contributors to this comprehensive anthology critique sociology's disciplinary engagement with colonialism in varied settings, while also highlighting the field's significant contributions to the theory and history of imperialism.
Author / Editor information
George Steinmetz is the Charles Tilly Collegiate Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan. He is the author of The Devil’s Handwriting: Precoloniality and the German Colonial State in Qingdao, Samoa, and Southwest Africa and Regulating the Social: The Welfare State and Local Politics in Imperial Germany. He is the editor of The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences: Positivism and Its Epistemological Others, also published by Duke University Press.
Reviews
"From the sociology of empire to the empire in sociology, this is a book of immense erudition and encyclopedic reach. By bringing colonialism, imperialism, and empire to its center, George Steinmetz and his collaborators recalibrate the history of sociology and endow contemporary research with a badly needed global reflexivity."—Michael Burawoy, University of California, Berkeley, and President of the International Sociological Association
"This is superior, highly innovative work, well-choreographed by the masterly hand of George Steinmetz. It makes a uniquely valuable contribution to historical and cultural sociology. Despite a growing interest in sociology's complicity in imperialism, there is nothing else like this book. It is attentive to networks and localities, as well as global concerns; contains wonderfully variegated cases, from countries including Italy, Russia, France, the Philippines, and the United States; and offers consistently brilliant field analyses. Sociology and Empire is an exceptional volume."—Peter Beilharz, La Trobe University
“This rich, agenda-setting book will quickly become required reading for all historical sociologists. Essential.”
-- J. Li Choice
"George Steinmetz, who has edited this big and complex book, is well known for his pioneering work on the role of the social sciences in German overseas imperialism. He has invited 19 excellent social scientists to explore the links between sociology and empire. They have produced fresh and provocative knowledge, aiming to put an end to a long disciplinary amnesia."
-- Jean-Louis Fabiani Social Anthropology
“This is overall an ambitious volume which does what it aims to do, that is, to drag sociology out of its amnesia and recognize its historical role in colonial research, and to foreground current sociological research on imperialism today. … [A] necessary and significant contribution.”
-- Yoke-Sum Wong Sociology
"Sociology and Empire is a comprehensive and interdisciplinary inquiry into the imperial entanglements not only of a discipline but of the modern and present-day academy. The sort of unhindered self-analysis featured in this volume should be of interest and benefit to historians and science studies scholars of all stripes."
-- Theodora Dryer ISIS
"This is a momentous volume in terms of vision, content, and—at more than 600 pages—sheer size. It will become essential reading in the field of historical sociology and a valuable resource for historians interested in sociological theory."
-- Britta Schilling Central European History
"Sociology and Empire should be seen as an important intervention in a longstanding trend whereby sociologists have charted a new course for the future by rewriting the history of the past."
-- Zine Magubane Contemporary Sociology
"A treasure trove of insightful essays outlining in lucid sociologese the many entanglements of empire, empire production, and empire decay. . . . Sociology and Empire will no doubt have a lasting impression."
-- Demetrius A. Lamar Humanity and Society
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Part I. NATIONAL SOCIOLOGICAL FIELDS & THE STUDY OF EMPIRE
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Part II. CURRENT SOCIOLOGICAL THEORIES OF EMPIRE
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Part III. HISTORICAL STUDIES OF COLONIALISM & EMPIRE
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Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
June 19, 2013
eBook ISBN:
9780822395409
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
632
Other:
5 photos, 3 tables, 2 maps, 1 figure
eBook ISBN:
9780822395409
Audience(s) for this book
Professional and scholarly;
