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      The Dialectics of Inquiry Across the Historical Social Sciences
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      The Dialectics of Inquiry Across the Historical Social Sciences

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      The Dialectics of Inquiry Across the Historical Social Sciences book

      ByDavid Baronov
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2013
      eBook Published 14 November 2013
      Pub. Location New York
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315871202
      Pages 330
      eBook ISBN 9781315871202
      Subjects Social Sciences
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      Baronov, D. (2013). The Dialectics of Inquiry Across the Historical Social Sciences (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315871202

      ABSTRACT

      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 a 2007 flood in central Uruguay. In each case, Baronov chronicles how expressions of human agency at the level of those caught up in each event give form and substance to various abstract global-historical concepts — such as slavery in the Americas, global capitalist production, and colonial/postcolonial Africa. Underlying this repositioning of the local and the ephemeral is an immanent, phenomenological analysis that illustrates how mere transient events are the progenitors of otherwise abstract, global-historical concepts. Traversing the intersections of human agency and structural determinism, Baronov deftly retains the nuance and serendipity of everyday life, while deploying this nuance and serendipity to further embellish our understanding of those enduring global-historical structures and processes that shape large-scale, long-term, historical accounts of social and cultural change across the historical social sciences.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      part |2 pages

      Part I: Preliminaries

      chapter 1|12 pages

      The Saga of Late Modernity

      part |2 pages

      Part II: The Analysis

      chapter 2|38 pages

      The Jena Chair

      chapter 3|64 pages

      The New York City Draft Riots (July 1863)

      chapter 4|67 pages

      The Yí River Flood

      chapter 5|73 pages

      The Mozambican AIDS

      part |2 pages

      Part III: Commentary

      chapter 6|14 pages

      Commentary on the Analysis

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