This Handbook consists of 26 chapters on historical sociology. Part One is devoted to Foundations, Part Two moves on to consider major approaches and Part Three is devoted to the major themes in historical sociology. Systematic and informative it offers readers the most complete and authoritative guide to historical sociology.

Introduction - Gerard Delanty and Engin F Isin
Reorienting Historical Sociology
PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS
Karl Marx and Historical Sociology - Duncan Kelly
Max Weber and the Interpretative Tradition - Robert Holton
Evolutionary and Functionalist Historical Sociology - John Holmwood and Maureen O¿ Malley
The Annales, Braudel and Historical Sociology - Peter Burke
Civilizational Complexes and Processes - John Mandalios
Elias, Nelson and Eisenstadt
PART TWO: APPROACHES
Historical Materialist Sociology and Revolutions - George C Comminel
Theories That Won¿t Pass Away - Wolfgang Kn[um]obl
The Never-ending Story of Modernization Theory
Historical Geography and Historical Sociology - Susan W Friedman
Our Honest Toil and the Spatial Turn
Institutional History - Chris Smaje
Comparative Approaches to Race and Caste
Cultural History Is Dead (Long Live the Hydra) - John R Hall
An Intellectual History Meets Historical Sociology - Peter Wagner
Historical Sociology after the Linguistic Turn
Prologue for a Genealogy of War and Peace - Mitchell Dean
Genealogical Approaches
Subaltern Studies and Post-Colonial Historiography - Dipesh Chakrabarty
PART THREE: THEMES
The Cultural Logic of Historical Periodization - Peter Toohey
East and West - Johann P Arnason
From Invidious Dichotomy to Incomplete Deconstruction
Classes and Nations in Recent Historical Sociology - Robert Fine and Daniel Chernilo
The Formation of the Modern State and the Institutionalization of Rule - Gianfranco Poggi
The Evolution of Parliaments - Tom R Burns and Masoud Kamali
A Comparative, Historical Perspective on Assemblies and Political Decision-making
Social Movements and Democratization - Klaus Eder
The Persistence of Nationalism - Gerard Delanty
Modernity and Discourses of the Nation
Architecturing Modern Nations - Paul Jones
Architecture and the State
Historical Sociology of the City - Engin F Isin
Historical Memory - Bernhard Giesen and Kay Junge
Gender and Patriarchy in Historical Sociology - Pavla Miller
Historical Sociology of Religion - Bryan S Turner
Politics and Modernity
From Moral Science to Moral Regulation - Alan Hunt
Social Theory¿s Encounter with the Moral Domain
Afterword - Craig Calhoun
Why Historical Sociology?