Essays in Theory and History : An Approach to the Social Sciences / Melvin Richter.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Richter, Melvin, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences.

Local Subjects:

Social sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (300 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2014

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Frontmatter

PREFACE

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

THEORY

1. POLITICAL SCIENCE AND HISTORY / Beer, Samuel H.

2. THE USES OF THEORY: TOCQUEVILLE'S ADAPTATION OF MONTESQUIEU / Richter, Melvin

3. THREE TYPES OF CONSERVATISM / Epstein, Klaus

4. THE REVOLUTIONARY USES OF REPRESSION / Walzer, Michael

HISTORY

5. THE CHANGING PLACE OF COLLECTIVE VIOLENCE / Tilly, Charles

6. COLONIAL RHODE ISLAND AND THE BEGINNINGS OF THE LIBERAL RATIONALIZED STATE / James, Sydney V.

7. AMERICAN VOTING BEHAVIOR AND THE 1964 ELECTION / Burnham, Walter Dean

8. WORKING-CLASS SOCIAL MOBILITY IN INDUSTRIAL AMERICA / Thernstrom, Stephan

APPENDIXES NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS NOTES INDEX

APPENDIX A. READING LISTS AND EXAMINATIONS, 1951-1952, 1968-1969

APPENDIX B. TEACHING STAFF, SOCIAL SCIENCES 2 (1946-1970)

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

NOTES

INDEX

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

0-674-36703-0

OCLC:

1024004966