A Historiography of the modern social sciences / edited by Roger E. Backhouse, Philippe Fontaine.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Backhouse, Roger, 1951- editor.

Fontaine, Philippe, 1960- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences--History.

Social sciences.

History.

Economics--History.

Economics.

Historiography.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 248 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Summary:

"A Historiography of the Modern Social Sciences includes essays on the ways in which the histories of history, psychology, anthropology, sociology, economics, and political science have been written since the Second World War. Bringing together chapters written by the leading historians of each discipline establishes significant parallels and contrasts and makes the case for a comparative interdisciplinary historiography. This comparative approach helps explain historiographical developments on the basis of factors specific to individual disciplines and the social, political, and intellectual developments that go beyond individual disciplines. All historians, including historians of the different social sciences, encounter literatures with which they are not familiar. This book will provide a broader understanding of the different ways in which the history of the social sciences, and by extension intellectual history, is written"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1.Introduction / Roger E Backhouse and Philippe Fontaine

2. History and historiography since 1945 / Kevin Passmore

3. History of anthropology / Henrika Kuklick

4. Periphery toward center and back : scholarship on the history of sociology, 1945-2012 / Charles Camic

5. History of psychology since 1945: a North American review / James H. Capshew

6. Contested identities : the history of economics since 1945 / Roger E. Backhouse and Philippe Fontaine

7. A disciplinary history of disciplinary histories : the case of political science / Robert Adcock.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781107037724

1107037727

OCLC:

878812913

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