Interpreting the Past, Understanding the Present

Notes on the Contributors - Introduction: Sociology and History, The Past and The Present; The Editors - Future History; C.Tilly - What is Sociological History?; C.Hay - The Currency of History for Sociology; G.Wickham - Biography, Family History and the Analysis of Social Change; B.Elliott - Social Change and Economic Life in Kirkcaldy, 1891-1987: sources and methods, a historical perspective; J.Smyth - The Historical Reconstruction of Rural Localities: A New Zealand case study; R.R.Hall - Urbanisation as Moral Project: Transitions in Twentieth Century Britain; R.Mellor - Aye tae the Fore: the Fife Miners in the 1984-5 Strike; S.Najam - History and Sociology in the New Economic Sociology: a Discourse in Search of a Method; R.Penn - Change and Continuity in History and Sociology: The Case of Industrial Paternalism; H.Bradley - Sub-Contracting and Industrial Development; R.Fevre - Index