Part I Introduction; Chapter 1 Method and Explanation; Part II Concepts and Observations; Chapter 2 Systems, Dispositions, and Transactions in Social Analysis; Chapter 3 Observations of Social Processes and Their Formal Representations; Chapter 4 Event Catalogs as Theories; Chapter 5 Iron City Blues; Chapter 6 Why Read the Classics?; Part III Explanations and Comparisons; Chapter 7 To Explain Political Processes; Chapter 8 Means and Ends of Comparison in Macrosociology; Chapter 9 Terror, Terrorism, Terrorists; Chapter 10 Linkers, Diggers, and Glossers in Social Analysis; Part IV Historical Social Analysis; Chapter 11 History and Sociological Imagining; Chapter 12 Historical Analysis of Political Processes; Chapter 13 What Good Is Urban History?; Chapter 14 Anglo-American Social History Since 1945; Chapter 15 Three Visions of History and Theory; partV Conclusion; Chapter 16 Epilogue;

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