… This book is composed of contemporary classics by social scientists who do research on
global social change in historical and comparative perspective. The chapters provide an …

… Part of the appeal comes from the general usefulness of looking at historical trajectories
in order to study social change. Indeed, practitioners of comparative history from Alexis de …

… For the third part of the volume, we arranged a set of essays focused on comparative historical
methods. The field of comparative historical methodology has in fact grown by leaps and …

… higher learning in social upheavals based upon the largely traditional content of the curnculum
2 Part of this confusion results from an excessively narrow view of social change, hmited …

… century, comparative and historical investigation maintained a … to social knowledge partially
eclipse comparative historical … reemergence of the comparative historical tradition. Although …

… the relationship between law and social change. Development can be thought of as a type
of social change-more particularly, as suggested above, progressive social change. From this …

… Comparative history merely tends to make these … Comparative history makes us all the more
aware of our selections. … Comparative history is theoretically challenging to its practitioners, …

… of the more general relation between the two levels, however, it is well to discuss briefly the
other two categories of the paradigm of a phase of progressive developmental social change …

… OF CHANGE IN HISTORICAL SOCIETIES In this paper I analyze the major patterns of change
within "historical" social and … 1 This is part of a larger work on comparative civilizations. A …

… Such comparative case studies provide solid building blocks for theories of social
change and development, allowing us to work toward larger generalizations gradually by …