¿Cuál es la utilidad de la teoría social para los historiadores, y de la historia para los teóricos sociales? Con una prosa clara y vigorosa, un sobresaliente historiador de la cultura ofrece aquí una respuesta de gran alcance a estas preguntas engañosamente simples. En este texto clásico, hoy revisado y actualizado en su segunda edición, Peter Burke vuelve a examinar la relación entre el campo de la historia y el de las ciencias sociales y su convergencia tentativa en décadas recientes. En primer lugar, Burke examina los usos que los historiadores han dado —o podrían dar— a los modelos, métodos y conceptos de las ciencias sociales, y luego analiza algunos de los conflictos intelectuales, como la oposición entre estructura y agencia humana, que están en el centro de la tensión entre la historia y la teoría social. A lo largo del libro, su autor abreva en una vasta gama de culturas y períodos para ilustrar cómo la historia, a su vez, ha sido utilizada para crear y convalidar teorías sociales. Esta nueva edición actualiza la anterior con el agregado de ejemplos y discusiones de nuevos tópicos, como el capital social, la globaliza- ción y el poscolonialismo. La segunda edición de Historia y teoría social —una obra de invalorable utilidad y, ya, un clásico— seguirá estimulando a estudiosos y especialistas de toda una serie de disciplinas con su penetrante evaluación del papel de la historia y las ciencias sociales en nuestros días.

The two volumes of Marxism and Historical Practice bring together a wide range of essays written by one of the major Marxist historians of the last fifty years. Collected in Volume II, Interventions and Appreciations, are articles and reviews capturing the breadth of Palmer’s interests as a radical historian. Cultural forms and representational productions are analysed; political readings of historiography and pioneering historical practice provided. Themes as diverse as the analytic and political contributions of Eric Hobsbawm and E.P. Thompson, the conflicted legacies of American Trotskyism, and the representation of class politics in Scorsese’s Gangs of New York are covered.

This book offers a path forward, for the growing collaboration in social studies education between Global North and South educators, practitioners, and researchers. In this volume, leading critical social studies education researchers from Latin America explore the constant presence of colonialism, capitalism, patriarchy, and state violence. Chapter contributors represent a large part of the continent and offer perspectives on a wide range of topics, including recent history and memory, cultural dimensions of social studies education, and comparative studies among Latin American countries. By bringing together this critical work in one volume, the book fosters conversation across geographic regions to transcend the national contexts for which these analyses are generally produced. This collection provides insights into issues of curriculum, teaching, teacher education, and research in the region and will be of interest to readers both familiar with and new to research on social studies, history, citizenship, and geography education in Latin America.

Spain's most productive, creative, and highly regarded anthropologist, Carmelo Lison-Tolosana was born in the small Aragonese community he calls Belmonte." This work reflects both his deep knowledge of the village and the objectivity of his professional training. Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.