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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 December 2022

Edited by
Richard Bourke  and
Quentin Skinner
Richard Bourke
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Quentin Skinner
Affiliation:
Queen Mary University of London
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This book explores the relationship between history and a range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Specifically, it examines the role of historical study in eight distinct subject areas: economics, political science, political theory, international relations, sociology, philosophy, law, literature and anthropology. The relevance of historical approaches withing these disciplines has shifted over the centuries. Many of them, like law and economics, originally depended on self-consciously historical procedures. These included the marshalling of evidence from past experience, philological techniques and source criticism. Between the late nineteenth and the middle of the twentieth century, this dependence was reduced under the influence of new methods of research, many indebted to models favoured by the natural sciences. Statistical, analytical and scientistic approaches secured an expanding intellectual authority while the hegemony of historical methods declined in relative terms. Functionalism, structuralism, logical positivism, formalist criticism, behaviourism and economic formalism challenged context-specific forms of inquiry. In the aftermath of this change, the essays collected in History in the Humanities and Social Sciences reflect from a variety of angles on the relevance of historical concerns to representative disciplines as they are configured today.

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HistorySocial SciencesLawIntenational RelationsPolitical TheoryAnthropologyLiteratrure. EconomicsSociologyPhilosophyPolitical Science
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History in the Humanities and Social Sciences , pp. 1 - 19
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Print publication year: 2022

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  • Introduction
  • Edited by Richard Bourke, University of Cambridge, Quentin Skinner, Queen Mary University of London
  • Book: History in the Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Online publication: 08 December 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009231053.001
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  • Introduction
  • Edited by Richard Bourke, University of Cambridge, Quentin Skinner, Queen Mary University of London
  • Book: History in the Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Online publication: 08 December 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009231053.001
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  • Introduction
  • Edited by Richard Bourke, University of Cambridge, Quentin Skinner, Queen Mary University of London
  • Book: History in the Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Online publication: 08 December 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009231053.001
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