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"Historical Sociology" published on by Oxford University Press.

part, I Historical Sociology -- chapter 1 Background and Emergence -- part, II History and the Tradition of Indian Sociology -- chapter 2 Early Colonial Period -- chapter 3 Post-1858 Era -- chapter 4 The Phase of 'Pioneers' -- chapter 5 Sociology After Independence.

"This book is a comprehensive study of historical sociology and its development, especially in the Indian context. It looks at the works of Indian sociologists and analyses their approaches in terms of book-view (normative) and field-view (descriptive) history. The volume:' critically appraises reports of empirical surveys conducted during early colonial rule ' including those by H.T. Colebrooke, Francis Buchanan, William Adam;' engages with the works of sociologists such as M.N. Srinivas, Ramkrishna Mukherjee, Louis Dumont, Nicholas Dirks, Bernard Cohn, Yogendra Singh, D.N. Dhanagare, A.M Shah, T.K. Oommen, among others; and' shows how historical perspective has been adopted in understanding aspects of Indian society ' villages, castes, traditions, socio-cultural change, education, peasants and their movements, etc. Presenting an alternative idea of social reality, this book will deeply interest students and scholars of sociology, social theory, and social history."--Provided by publisher.

This book reconstructs and brings together the work of a number of social and political theorists in order to gain new insight on the emergence and character of modern Western society.

This paper attempts to reassess the standard sociological canon and sketch the outlines of a new approach by bringing together a series of thinkers whose works so far have remained disconnected. Introducing a distinction between classics and background figures who were crucial sources of inspiration, it shifts emphasis to the late, reflexive works of Durkheim and Weber. These are sources for two types of reflexive sociology: historical and anthropological. The main background figures of reflexive historical sociology are Marx, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche and Freud, while its protagonists include Foucault, Elias, Voegelin, Borkenau, Mumford, Ariès and Koselleck. A short introduction will be given to the four main fields of interest within the approach: the reconstructive histories of subjectivity, of forms of thought, of forms of knowledge, and of closed space and regulated time.

Michael Mann's 'The Sources of Social Power', reviewed here, challenges Marxist historical materialism on its own ground by seeking to establish the ecological, logistical and ideological dimesions of power as they can be observed in human societies from the dawn of history to the early modern epoch. (CP)