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Subject(s)

• Political science—History [Browse]
• Sociology—History [Browse]

Series

Oxford scholarship online. [More in this series]

Summary note

This text outlines and illustrates a new approach to intellectual history, the history of "concepts". In contrast with to the study of more traditional units of analysis, conceptual history stresses historical contexts, seeking to combine the history of ideas and language with social history.

Notes

• Includes index.
• Previously issued in print: 1995.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-192) and index.

Source of description

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

Language note

English

Contents

• Introduction
• Charting the history of political and social concepts
• The Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe : relating political and social concepts to structural change
• The history of the concept of Herrschaft in the Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe
• The place of concepts in the history of mentalités : the Handbuch of French political and social concepts
• Innovation and critique in the Handbuch
• Pocock, Skinner, and Begriffsgeschichte
• "By the sufferance of wise men" : a call for a history of political and social concepts in English
• Appendix A: Concepts treated in the Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe
• Appendix B: Concepts treated in the Handbuch.

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ISBN

• 0-19-773351-4
• 1-280-44293-X
• 0-19-535852-X
• 1-60129-971-0

OCLC

• 252549764
• 1406780960

Doi

• 10.1093/oso/9780195088267.001.0001

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