The Dialectics of Inquiry Across the Historical Social Sciences

by David Baronov

Book Overview

This book turns conventional global-historical analysis on its head, demonstrating, first, that local events cannot be derived - logically or historically - from large-scale, global-historical structures and processes and, second, that it is these structures and processes that, in fact, emerge from our analysis of local events. This is made evident via an analysis of three disparate events: the New York City Draft Riots, AIDS in Mozambique, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415717639
• ISBN13: 9780415717632
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"