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Schrag, Z., 2021. The Princeton guide to historical research. Princeton University Press.

The Princeton Guide to Historical Research provides students, scholars, and professionals with the skills they need to practice the historian’s craft in the digital age, while never losing sight of the fundamental values and techniques that have defined historical scholarship for centuries.

Zachary Schrag begins by explaining how to ask good questions and then guides readers step-by-step through all phases of historical research, from narrowing a topic and locating sources to taking notes, crafting a narrative, and connecting one’s work to existing scholarship. He shows how researchers extract knowledge from the widest range of sources, such as government documents, newspapers, unpublished manuscripts, images, interviews, and datasets. He demonstrates how to use archives and libraries, read sources critically, present claims supported by evidence, tell compelling stories, and much more.

Featuring a wealth of examples that illustrate the methods used by seasoned experts, The Princeton Guide to Historical Research reveals that, however varied the subject matter and sources, historians share basic tools in the quest to understand people and the choices they made.

This book:

• Offers practical step-by-step guidance on how to do historical research, taking readers from initial questions to final publication
• Connects new digital technologies to the traditional skills of the historian
• Draws on hundreds of examples from a broad range of historical topics and approaches
• Shares tips for researchers at every skill level

Mattias Smångs, Race, Gender, and the Rape-Lynching Nexus in the U.S. South, 1881-1930, Social Problems, Volume 67, Issue 4, November 2020, Pages 616–636, https://doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spz035

2020. Somers, Margaret R. “The Moral Economy of the Capitalist Crowd: Utopianism, the Reality of Society, and the Market as a Morally-Instituted Process in Polanyi’s The Great Transformation.” Special Dossier on Moral Economy, edited by Jeremy Adelman and Sam Moyn. Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development, Volume 11, Number 2, Summer 2020, pp. 227-234

2020. Somers, Margaret R., and Fred Block. “Polanyi’s Democratic Socialist Vision: Piketty through the Lens of Polanyi.” Pp. 211-30 in Karl Polanyi and twenty-first century capitalism. Edited by Radhika Desai and Kari Polanyi Levitt. Manchester, UK: University of Manchester Press.

Somers, Margaret R. 2020. “Even the Republican ‘Skinny’ Relief Bill Failed. How Is Such Unnecessary Suffering Justified? | Margaret Somers.” The Guardian. (http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/14/republican-skinny-coronavirus-relief-mitch-mcconnell).

Brown, Hana E. 2020. “Who Is an Indian Child? Institutional Context, Tribal Sovereignty, and Race-Making in Fragmented States.” American Sociological Review 85(5):776–805.

Padgett, John F., Katalin Prajda, Benjamin Rohr, and Jonathan Schoots. “Political discussion and debate in narrative time: The Florentine Consulte e Pratiche, 1376–1378.” Poetics (2020): 101377.

Schoots, Jonathan, Benjamin Rohr, Katalin Prajda, and John F. Padgett. “Conflict and Revolt in the Name of Unity: Florentine Factions in the Consulte e Pratiche on the Cusp of the Ciompi Revolt.” Poetics (2020): 101386.

Downey, Liam, Elizabeth Lawrence, Micah Pyles, and Derek Lee. “Power, Hegemony, and World Society Theory: A Critical Evaluation.” Socius 6 (2020): 2378023120920059. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2378023120920059

Li, Yao, and Manfred Elfstrom. “Does Greater Coercive Capacity Increase Overt Repression? Evidence from China.” Journal of Contemporary China (2020): 1-26. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10670564.2020.1790898

Xiao, Wenming, and Yao Li. “Building a ‘Lofty, Beloved People’s Amusement Centre’: The socialist transformation of Shanghai’s Great World (Dashijie)(1950–58).” Modern Asian Studies: 1-42. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X20000141

Elfstrom, Manfred, and Yao Li. “Contentious Politics in China: Causes, Dynamics, and Consequences.” Brill Research Perspectives in Governance and Public Policy in China 4, no. 1 (2019): 1-90. https://brill.com/view/title/56903

Ren, X., 2020. Governing the Urban in China and India: Land Grabs, Slum Clearance, and the War on Air Pollution. Princeton University Press.

Urbanization is rapidly overtaking China and India, the two most populous countries in the world. One-sixth of humanity now lives in either a Chinese or Indian city. This transformation has unleashed enormous pressures on land use, housing, and the environment. Despite the stakes, the workings of urban governance in China and India remain obscure and poorly understood.

In this book, Xuefei Ren explores how China and India govern their cities and how their different styles of governance produce inequality and exclusion. Drawing upon historical-comparative analyses and extensive fieldwork (in Beijing, Guangzhou, Wukan, Delhi, Mumbai, and Kolkata), Ren investigates the ways that Chinese and Indian cities manage land acquisition, slum clearance, and air pollution. She discovers that the two countries address these issues through radically different approaches. In China, urban governance centers on territorial institutions, such as hukou and the cadre evaluation system. In India, urban governance centers on associational politics, encompassing contingent alliances formed among state actors, the private sector, and civil society groups. Ren traces the origins of territorial and associational forms of governance to late imperial China and precolonial India. She then shows how these forms have evolved to shape urban growth and residents’ struggles today.

As the number of urban residents in China and India reaches beyond a billion, Governing the Urban in China and India makes clear that the development of cities in these two nations will have profound consequences well beyond their borders.

Mandić, D., 2020. Gangsters and Other Statesmen: Mafias, Separatists, and Torn States in a Globalized World. Princeton University Press.

Separatism has been on the rise across the world since the end of the Cold War, dividing countries through political strife, ethnic conflict, and civil war, and redrawing the political map. Gangsters and Other Statesmen examines the role transnational mafias play in the success and failure of separatist movements, challenging conventional wisdom about the interrelation of organized crime with peacebuilding, nationalism, and state making.

Danilo Mandić conducted fieldwork in the disputed territories of Kosovo and South Ossetia, talking to mobsters, separatists, and policymakers in war zones and along major smuggling routes. In this timely and provocative book, he demonstrates how globalized mafias shape the politics of borders in torn states, shedding critical light on an autonomous nonstate actor that has been largely sidelined by considerations of geopolitics, state-centered agency, and ethnonationalism. Blending extensive archival sleuthing and original ethnographic data with insights from sociology and other disciplines, Mandić argues that organized crime can be a fateful determinant of state capacity, separatist success, and ethnic conflict.

Putting mafias at the center of global processes of separatism and territorial consolidation, Gangsters and Other Statesmen raises vital questions and urges reconsideration of a host of separatist cases in West Africa, the Middle East, and East Europe.

 Almeida, Paul. 2020. Movimientos Sociales: La estructura de la acción colectiva. Buenos Aires: CLACSO.

En las páginas de Movimientos sociales: asoman las formas cotidianas de resistencia, las luchas de los movimientos locales y los grupos de base, las olas de protesta y los movimientos sociales transnacionales.

Paul Almeida retrata el papel de la movilización colectiva como una poderosa herramienta de transformación humana. Quien recorra las páginas de este libro encontrará una hipótesis: las acciones colectivas de ciudadanos y ciudadanas en las más diversas regiones del mundo son cada vez más fundamentales en la desaceleración del calentamiento global, en las luchas contra el racismo y la violencia de género, entre muchas otras formas de explotación de la sociedad y la naturaleza.

Chase-Dunn, Christopher and Paul Almeida. 2020.  Global Struggles and Social Change. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

In the early decades of the twenty-first century, an international movement to slow the pace of climate change mushroomed across the globe. The self-proclaimed Climate Justice movement urges immediate action to reduce carbon emissions and calls for the adoption of bold new policies to address global warming before irreversible and catastrophic damage threatens the habitability of the planet. On another front, since the 1980s, multiple waves of resistance have occurred around the world against the uneven transition from state-led development to the neoliberal globalization project. Both Climate Justice and Anti-Austerity movements represent the urgency of understanding how global change affects the ability of citizens around the world to mobilize and protect themselves from planetary warming and the loss of social protections granted in earlier eras.

In Global Struggles and Social Change, Christopher Chase-Dunn and Paul Almeida explore how global change stimulates the formation and shape of such movements. Contending that large-scale economic shifts condition the pattern of social movement mobilizations around the world, the authors trace these trends back to premodern societies, revealing how severe disruptions of indigenous communities led to innovative collective actions throughout history. Drawing on historical case studies, world system and protest event analysis, and social networks, they also examine the influence of global change processes on local, national, and transnational social movements and explain how in turn these movements shape institutional shifts.

Touching on hot-button topics, including global warming, immigrant rights protests, the rise of right-wing populism, and the 2008 financial crisis, the book also explores a broad range of premodern social movements from indigenous people in the Americas, Mesopotamia, and China. The authors pay special attention to periods of disruption and external threats, as well as the role of elites, emotions, charisma, and religion or spirituality in shaping protest movements. Providing sweeping coverage, Global Struggles and Social Change is perfect for students and anyone interested in globalization, international and comparative politics, political sociology, and communication studies.

Almeida, Paul and Amalia Pérez Martín. 2020. “Economic Globalization and Social Movements in Latin America.” In Xóchitl Bada and Liliana Rivera, eds., Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Latin America. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190926557.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780190926557-e-25

Mueller, Jason C., John McCollum, and Steven Schmidt. 2020. “COVID-19, the Vanishing Mediator, and Postcapitalist Possibilities.” Rethinking Marxism, Pandemic and the Crisis of Capitalism: A Rethinking Marxism Dossier, Pp. 181-192.

Schmidt, Steven, and Jason C. Mueller. “The Emergence of Participatory Budgeting in Mexico City.” Pp. 286-298 in The Routledge Handbook of Planning Megacities in the Global South, edited by Deden Rukmana. London: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Planning-Megacities-in-the-Global-South/Rukmana/p/book/9780367223724