Between Sociology and History: Essays on Microhistory, Collective Action, and Nation-building

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Anna-Maija Castrén, Markku Lonkila, Matti Peltonen
SKS/Finnish Literature Society, 2004 - 344 pages
This book contains contributions by distinguished scholars of history, sociology and anthropology from Finland, France, Italy, Russia and the United States. The first part of the book includes empirical research and methodological contributions of microhistory and social networks. The second part contains studies and reflections on nation-building, collective action, and the status of sociology. The writers of these essays wish to honour the 60th birthday of Risto Alapuro, Professor of Sociology at the University of Helsinki.

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Preface
7
Historians Psychoanalysis and Truth
71
After the Linguistic Turn? Hayden Whites Tropology
87
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