The Dialectics of Inquiry Across the Historical Social Sciences

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.

David Baronov is Professor of Sociology at St. John Fisher College.

Part I: Preliminaries 1.The Saga of Late Modernity Part II: The Analysis 2.The Jena Chair 3.The New York City Draft Riots (July 1863) 4. The Yí River Flood 5. The Mozambican AIDS Part III: Commentary 6. Commentary on the Analysis. Appendix A: Accounts of the New York City Draft Riots Sorted by Ontological Content. Appendix B: Accounts of the Yí River Flood Sorted by Ontological Content