Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Social Theory, Modernity and the Three Waves of Historical Sociology / Julia Adams, Elisabeth S. Clemens, and Ann Shola Orloff 1
Part I: Historical Sociology and Epistemological Underpinnings
The Action Turn? Comparative-Historical Inquiry beyond the Classical Models of Conduct / Richard Biernacki 75
Overlapping Territories and Intertwined Histories: Historical Sociology's Global Imagination / Zine Magubene 92
The Epistemological Unconscious of U.S. Sociology and the Transition to Post-Fordism: The Case of Historical Sociology / George Steinmetz 109
Part II: State Formation and Historical Sociology
The Return of the Repressed: Religion and the Political Unconscious of Historical Sociology / Philip S. Gorski 161
Social Provision and Regulation: Theories of States, Social Policies, and Modernity / Ann Shola Orloff 190
The Bureaucratization of States: Toward an Analytical Weberianism / Edgar Kiser and Justin Baer 225
Part III: History and Political Contention
Mars Revealed: The Entry of Ordinary People into War among the States / Meyer Kestnbaum 249
Historical Sociology and Collective Action / Roger V. Gould 286
Revolutions as Pathways to Modernity / Nader Sohrabi 300
Part IV: Capitalism, Modernity, and the Economic Realm
Historical Sociology and the Economy: Actors, Networks, and Context / Bruce G. Carruthers 333
The Great Debates: Transitions to Capitalisms / Rebecca Jean Emigh 355
The Professions: Prodigal Daughters of Modernity / Ming-Cheng M. Lo 381
Part V: Politics, History, and Collective Identities
Nations / Lyn Spillman and Russell Faeges 409
Citizenship Troubles: Genealogies of Struggle for the Soul of the Social / Margaret R. Somers 438
Ethnicity without Groups / Rogers Brubake 470
Afterword: Logics of History? Agency, Multiplicity, and Incoherence in the Explanation of Change / Elisabeth S. Clemens 493
References 517
Contributors 599
Index 603
