History and social theory
By: Peter Burke.
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
Description: Offers a reappraisal of the relations between history and the social sciences. Burke discusses the emergence of these disciplines and the most recent developments in the areas of historical sociology and the "new history", including women's history, microhistory and the history of everyday life.