History

Books:

Abrams. Towns in Societies: Essays in Economic History and Historical Sociology (1979);

     -     Historical Sociology (1980);

Abu-Lughod. Cairo: 1001 Years of the City Victorious (1971);

     -     Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350 (1989);

Althusser. History and Imperialism: Writings 1963-1986 (2020);

Anderson B. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (1983);

Anderson P. Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism (1974);

     -     Lineages of the Absolutist State (1974);

Aron. Introduction to the Philosophy of History: An Essay on the Limits of Historical Objectivity (1948, in French 1938);

Braudel. The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, 2 vol. (1972, in French 1949);

     -     On History (1980, In French 1969);

     -     Civilization and Capitalism, 3 vol. (1992, in French 1967-1979),

Chase-Dunn. Core/periphery Relations In Precapitalist Worlds (1991);

     -     Rise and Demise: Comparing World – Systems (1997);

     -     The Historical Evolution of World-Systems (2005);

Collins, R. The Credential Society: An Historical Sociology of Education and Stratification (1979);

     -     Macro-History (1999);

Dilthey. Selected Works, Volume IV: Hermeneutics and the Study of History (2010);

     -     Selected Works, Volume III: The Formation of the Historical World in the Human Sciences (2021);

Eisenstadt. The Political Systems of Empires (1963);

     -     Revolution and the Transformation of Societies: A Comparative Study of Civilizations (1978);

     -     The Origins and Diversity of Axial Age Civilizations (1986);

Elias. On the Process of Civilisation (Volume 3) (The Collected Works of Norbert Elias) (2012);

Engels. The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (2010, in German 1884);

Foucault. Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason (1988, in French 1961);

     -     The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception (1973, in French 1963);

     -     The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (1970, in French 1966);

     -     Archeology of Knowledge (1982, in French 1969);

     -     Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (1977, in French 1975);

     -     The History of Sexuality, 3 Vols(1988-1990, in French 1976-1984);

Frank. World Accumulation: 1492–1789 (1978);

Freyer. Theory of Objective Mind: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Culture (1991, in German 1923);   

Giddens. A Contemporary Critique of Historical Materialism, Vol. 1: Power, Property and the State (1981);

     -     A Contemporary Critique of Historical Materialism, Vol. 2: The Nation State and Violence (1985);

Giddings. Descriptive and Historical Sociology (1906);

Gilroy. The Empire Strikes Back: Race and Racism in Seventies Britain (1982);

     -     There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack: The Cultural Politics of Nation and Race (1987);

     -     The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (1993);

Grinin. „The Early State and its Analogues”, in Social Evolution & History (2004);

     -     „Production Revolutions and Periodization of History”, in Social Evolution & History (2007);

     -     Chiefdoms: Тheories, Problems, and Comparisons (2011);

     -     The Evolution of Statehood (2011);

     -     Great Divergence and Great Convergence (2015);

     -     Economic Cycles, Crises and the Global Periphery (2016);

Gumplovicz. Outlines of Sociology (2020, in German 1885);

Hirst. Pre-capitalist Modes of Production (1975);

Hobhouse. The Material Culture and Social Institutions of the Simpler Peoples (1915);

Hobsbawm. Primitive Rebels: Studies in Archaic Forms of Social Movement in the 19th and 20th Centuries (1959);

     -     The Age of  Revolution: Europe 1789-1848 (1962);

     -     Labouring Men: Studies in the History of Labour (1964);

     -     Industry and Empire (1968);

     -     The Age of Capital: 1848-1875 (1975);

     -     The Invention of Tradition (1983);

     -     The Age of Empire, 1875–1914 (1987);

     -     Nations and Nationalism Since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality (1990);

     -     Echoes of the Marseillaise (1994);

     -     The Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914-1991 (1994);

     -     On History (1997);

Hobson. Evolution of Modern Capitalism (1894);

Illich. Towards a History of Needs (1977);

James C. World Revolution 1917-1936: The Rise and Fall of the Communist International (1937);

     -     The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (1938);

Kidd. Social Evolution (1894);

Kovalevski. Modern Customs and Ancient Laws of Russia; Being the Ichester Lectures for 1889-90 (2010);

Kropotkin. The Great French Revolution 1789-1793 (1893);

     -     The State: Its Historic Role (1897);

Lenski. Ecological-Evolutionary Theory (2006);

Lukács. History and Class Consciousness (1971, in German 1923);

Mann. The Sources of Social Power, 4 vols. (1986-2012);

Martineau. Eastern Life: Present and Past; 3 vol. (1848);

     -     The History of the Thirty Years' Peace, A.D. 1816–1846 (1849);

Marx. A Contribution to The Critique Of The Political Economy (in German 1859);

Merton. Science, Technology and Society in Seventeenth-century England (1936);

Moore. Social Origins of Democracy and Dictatorship: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World (1966);

     -     Moral Purity and Persecution in History (2000);

Mumford. The City in History (1961);  

Nisbet. The History of the Idea of Progress (1980);

Oppenheimer. The State: Its History and Development Viewed Sociologically 1914 (2019);

Pareto. The Rise and Fall of Elites: An Application of Theoretical Sociology (1991, in Italian 1900);

Parsons. Societies: Evolutionary and Comparative Perspectives (1966);

Patterson. Freedom: Freedom in the Making of Western Culture, vol. 1. (1991);

Plekhanov. The Development of the Monist View of History (1947, in Russian 1894);

     -     On the Question of the Individual's Role in History (1961, in Russian 1898);

     -     Fundamental Problems of Marxism (1992, in Russian 1908);

Polanyi. The Great Transformation (1944);

     -     Trade and Markets in the Early Empires (1957);

     -     Dahomey and the Slave Trade (1966);

Rowbotham. Hidden from History (1973);

     -     The Past is Before Us: Feminism in Action since the 1960s (1989);

     -     A Century of Women: The History of Women in Britain and the United States (1997);

Runciman. A Treatise on Social Theory, vol. 2: Substantive Social Theory (1989);

Said. Orientalism (1978);

Sanderson. Social Transformations: A General Theory of Historical Development (1995);

Shanin. Russia 1905-07: Revolution as a Moment of Truth (1986);

Simiand. „Méthode historique et Science social”, in  Revue de synthèse historique (1903);

Simmel. The Problems of the Philosophy of History: An Epistemological Essay (1977, in German 1892);

Skocpol. States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China (1979);

     -     Vision and Method in Historical Sociology (1984);

Smelser. Social Change in the Industrial Revolution: An Application of Theory to the British Cotton Industry (1959);

Smith A. The Nation in History (2000);

Sombart. Socialism and the Social Movement in the 19th Century (1898, in German 1896);

     -     Why is there No Socialism in the United States (1976, in German 1906); 

     -     The Jews and Modern Capitalism (2015, in German 1911);

     -     The Quintessence of Capitalism: A Study of the History and Psychology of the Modern Business (2018, in German 1913);

Sorokin. Social and Cultural Dynamics, 4 vols. (1937-1941);

Spencer. The Study of Sociology (1873);

     -     Principles of Sociology, 3 vols. (1876-1896);

Spengler. The Decline of the West (2021, in German 1918, 1922);

     -     The Hour of Decision (1934): Germany and World-Historical Evolution (2018, in German 1933);

Stinchcomb. Theoretical Methods in Social History (1978);

     -     Sugar Island Slavery in the Age of Enlightenment: The Political Economy of the Caribbean World (1995);

Tawney. The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century (1912);

     -     Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (1926);

Therborn. What Does the Ruling Class do When it Rules?: State Apparatuses and State Power under Feudalism, Capitalism and Socialism (1978);

     -     The Ideology of Power and the Power of Ideology (1980);

     -     European Modernity and Beyond: The Trajectory of European Societies: 1945-2000 (1995);

     -     Between Sex and Power: Family in the World, 1900-2000 (2004);

Tilly. The Vendée (1964);

     -     An Urban World (1974);

     -     The Rebellious Century: 1830–1930 (1975);

     -     From Mobilization to Revolution (1978);

     -     As Sociology Meets History (1981);

     -     Big Structures, Large Processes, Huge Comparisons (1985);

     -     The Contentious French (1986);

     -     Coercion, Capital, and European States: A.D. 990–1990 (1990);

     -     European Revolutions: 1492–1992 (1993);

     -     Popular Contention in Great Britain: 1758–1834 (1995);

     -     Roads from Past to Future (1997);

     -     Durable Inequality (1998);

     -     Stories, Identities and Political Change (2002);

     -     Contention and Democracy in Europe: 1650–2000 (2004a);

     -     Social Movements: 1768–2004 (2004b);

Tocqueville. Democracy in America (2021, in French 1835, 1840);

     -     The Old Regime and the French Revolution (2014, in French 1856); 

Toynbee. A Study of History, 12 vols. (1934-1961);

     -     An Historian's Approach to Religion (1956).

Veblen. Imperial Germany and the Industrial Revolution (1915);

Wallerstein. The Modern World System, 4 Vols. (1974-2011);

     -     Historical Capitalism (1983);

     -     Historical Capitalism, with Capitalist Civilization (1995);

Ward. Dynamic Sociology (1883);

     -     The Psychic Factors of Civilization (1893); 

Webb. History of Trade Unionism  (1894);

Weber A. Farewell to Europan History of Conquest of Nihilism (1947, in German 1946);

     -     Alfred Weber's Theory of the Location of Industries (2019, in German 1909);

     -     History of Philosophy (2017);

Weber Max. General Economic History - The Social Causes of the Decay of Ancient Civilisation (1950, in German 1927);

     -     Ancient Judaism (1952, in German vol. 3 of 1920-1921);

     -     The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism: and Other Writings (2002, in German 1920);

     -     Economy and Society : A New Translation (2019, in German 1922a);

Wittfogel. The Hydraulic Civilizations (1956);

     -     Oriental Despotism (1957);

     -     The Marxist View of Russian Society and Revolution (1960);

     -     Class Structure and Total Power in Oriental Despotism (1960);

     -     A Short History of Chinese Communism (1964);

     -     Results and Problems of the Study of Oriental Despotism (1969);

     -     Agriculture: A Key to the Understanding of Chinese Society: Past and Present (1970);

     -     The Hydraulic Approach to Pre-spanish Mesoamerica (1972);

Wolf. Sons of the Shaking Earth (1959);

     -     Peasants (1966);

     -     Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century (1969);

     -     Europe and People Without History (1982);

Zelizer. Morals and Markets: The Development of Life Insurance in the United States (1979);

     -     Pricing the Priceless Child: The Changing Social Value of Children (1985).

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