William H Sewell Jr
Biographic Data
| ID | 410775 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William H Sewell Jr |
| GIVEN NAMES | William H |
| FAMILY NAME | Sewell Jr |
| SIGNATURE | JR W H S |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Capitalism and the Emergence of Civic Equality in Eighteenth-Century France
Capitalism and the Emergence of Civic Equality in Eighteenth-Century France
William H. Sewell Jr.'s Capitalism and the Emergence of Civic Equality in Eighteenth-Century France offers a powerful new interpretation of the political origins of modernity. Challenging conventional narratives that trace modern civic equality to the rise of capitalism, Sewell argues that the relationship between capitalism and civic equality was far more complex and contingent. He demonstrates how the struggle for civic equality in eighteenth-c…
On Vivek Chibber's Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital
Review Symposium Commentary
Language and Practice in Cultural History
Roger Chartier is one of the most theoretically aware of historians. His prodigious scholarly output, whether empirical studies of print culture and reading practices in the early modern world or interpretive, synthetic, or polemical essays, has always been marked by a wide range of theoretical reference and a close attention to conceptual issues. On the Edge of the Cliff. History, Language, and Practice makes these theoretical concerns particula…
Rights and Citizens in the Old Regime
Social and Cultural Perspectives on Women's Work
The essays that make up this forum deal with gender and work identity across three centuries of French In methodology and subject matter, however, Judith DeGroat's essay contrasts sharply with other two. Carol Loats's and Daryl Hafter's essays are representatives of what was once called the new social but now might better be called the old social history. DeGroat's essay falls clearly into genre of the new cultural history, which in another fifte…
Geertz, Cultural Systems, and History
CLIFFORD GEERTZ IS SURELY THE MOST INFLUENTIAL American anthropologist of his generation. Although others-for example, Marshall Sahlins or Victor Turner-may rival his standing within anthropology, none approaches his influence on readers outside his home discipline. 'As Renato Rosaldo once remarked, Geertz has become the ambassador from anthropology. The ambassador's slot was already in existence when Geertz emerged as an anthropological supersta…
Ideologies and social revolutions
This article was inspired – perhaps I should say provoked – by Theda Skocpol's States and Social Revolutions . I believe that her book deserves the general acclaim it has received as a model of comparative historical analysis and as a brilliant contribution to the sociology of revolutions. But I also believe that Skocpol's treatment of the role of ideology in revolution is inadequate. This article begins by developing an alternative to Skocpol's …
A Rhetoric of Bourgeois Revolution
Structure and Mobility. The Men and Women of Marseille, 1820-1870
La classe ouvriere de Marseille sous la Seconde Republique
This article examines the social structure and political behavior of the working class in Marseille during the Second Republic (1848-1851). Sewell analyzes the complex relationship between occupational categories, neighborhood structures, and political affiliations, demonstrating the heterogeneity of the working class and the limitations of simplistic class-based analyses of political behavior. He argues that factors such as occupational instabil…
Geertz, Cultural Systems, and History
CLIFFORD GEERTZ IS SURELY THE MOST INFLUENTIAL American anthropologist of his generation. Although others-for example, Marshall Sahlins or Victor Turner-may rival his standing within anthropology, none approaches his influence on readers outside his home discipline. 'As Renato Rosaldo once remarked, Geertz has become the ambassador from anthropology. The ambassador's slot was already in existence when Geertz emerged as an anthropological supersta…
Capitalism and the Emergence of Civic Equality in Eighteenth-Century France
William H. Sewell Jr.'s Capitalism and the Emergence of Civic Equality in Eighteenth-Century France offers a powerful new interpretation of the political origins of modernity. Challenging conventional narratives that trace modern civic equality to the rise of capitalism, Sewell argues that the relationship between capitalism and civic equality was far more complex and contingent. He demonstrates how the struggle for civic equality in eighteenth-c…
Language and Practice in Cultural History
Roger Chartier is one of the most theoretically aware of historians. His prodigious scholarly output, whether empirical studies of print culture and reading practices in the early modern world or interpretive, synthetic, or polemical essays, has always been marked by a wide range of theoretical reference and a close attention to conceptual issues. On the Edge of the Cliff. History, Language, and Practice makes these theoretical concerns particula…
Rights and Citizens in the Old Regime
Social and Cultural Perspectives on Women's Work
The essays that make up this forum deal with gender and work identity across three centuries of French In methodology and subject matter, however, Judith DeGroat's essay contrasts sharply with other two. Carol Loats's and Daryl Hafter's essays are representatives of what was once called the new social but now might better be called the old social history. DeGroat's essay falls clearly into genre of the new cultural history, which in another fifte…
On Vivek Chibber's Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital
Review Symposium Commentary
La classe ouvriere de Marseille sous la Seconde Republique
This article examines the social structure and political behavior of the working class in Marseille during the Second Republic (1848-1851). Sewell analyzes the complex relationship between occupational categories, neighborhood structures, and political affiliations, demonstrating the heterogeneity of the working class and the limitations of simplistic class-based analyses of political behavior. He argues that factors such as occupational instabil…
Structure and Mobility. The Men and Women of Marseille, 1820-1870
Ideologies and social revolutions
This article was inspired – perhaps I should say provoked – by Theda Skocpol's States and Social Revolutions . I believe that her book deserves the general acclaim it has received as a model of comparative historical analysis and as a brilliant contribution to the sociology of revolutions. But I also believe that Skocpol's treatment of the role of ideology in revolution is inadequate. This article begins by developing an alternative to Skocpol's …
A Rhetoric of Bourgeois Revolution
Rights and Citizens in the Old Regime
Social and Cultural Perspectives on Women's Work
The essays that make up this forum deal with gender and work identity across three centuries of French In methodology and subject matter, however, Judith DeGroat's essay contrasts sharply with other two. Carol Loats's and Daryl Hafter's essays are representatives of what was once called the new social but now might better be called the old social history. DeGroat's essay falls clearly into genre of the new cultural history, which in another fifte…
Geertz, Cultural Systems, and History
CLIFFORD GEERTZ IS SURELY THE MOST INFLUENTIAL American anthropologist of his generation. Although others-for example, Marshall Sahlins or Victor Turner-may rival his standing within anthropology, none approaches his influence on readers outside his home discipline. 'As Renato Rosaldo once remarked, Geertz has become the ambassador from anthropology. The ambassador's slot was already in existence when Geertz emerged as an anthropological supersta…
Language and Practice in Cultural History
Roger Chartier is one of the most theoretically aware of historians. His prodigious scholarly output, whether empirical studies of print culture and reading practices in the early modern world or interpretive, synthetic, or polemical essays, has always been marked by a wide range of theoretical reference and a close attention to conceptual issues. On the Edge of the Cliff. History, Language, and Practice makes these theoretical concerns particula…
On Vivek Chibber's Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital
Review Symposium Commentary
Capitalism and the Emergence of Civic Equality in Eighteenth-Century France
Capitalism and the Emergence of Civic Equality in Eighteenth-Century France
William H. Sewell Jr.'s Capitalism and the Emergence of Civic Equality in Eighteenth-Century France offers a powerful new interpretation of the political origins of modernity. Challenging conventional narratives that trace modern civic equality to the rise of capitalism, Sewell argues that the relationship between capitalism and civic equality was far more complex and contingent. He demonstrates how the struggle for civic equality in eighteenth-c…
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