Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

実証主義以後－歴史社会学における比較への新しいアプローチ
Wilson, Nicholas Hoover / Mayrl, Damon (eds.), After Positivism: New Approaches to Comparison in Historical Sociology. 384 pp. 2024:3 (Columbia U. Pr., US) <718-800>
ISBN 978-0-231-20822-2 hard ¥32,340.- (税込) US$ 150.00 *
ISBN 978-0-231-20823-9 paper ¥8,192.- (税込) US$ 38.00 *

What is the value of comparison for research in historical sociology? Today, social scientists regularly express doubt about the positivist premises that have long justified comparison's use: that cases can be unproblematically compared as though they are independent of one another, that comparison can reliably yield valid causal inference, and that comparative methods can grapple with questions of meaning, sequence, and process that are central to historical explanation. Yet they remain reluctant to abandon comparison altogether, not least because comparisons are still manifestly useful in the research process.After Positivism presents a bold new set of warrants and methodologies for comparison that takes these criticisms fully into account. The contributors to this book marshal a wide array of postpositivist approaches to knowledge to reconstruct the analytic potential of comparison for a new generation of social scientists. In addition to providing fresh answers to classic questions about case selection and causal inference, authors ponder the role comparison plays in a world where social phenomena are demonstrably time-, space-, and concept-dependent; where causation is typically conjunctural; where social structures and groups emerge and die; and where important objects of inquiry can be understood only in terms of relationships, emergent properties, or contingent and irregular effects. Engaging and timely, this book will be of interest to all those who seek to improve our explanations of historical change in social-scientific research.

マルクス主義と中世研究－中東欧におけるマルクス主義的歴史記述
Nodl, Martin / Wecowski, Piotr / Zupka, Dusan (eds.), Marxism and Medieval Studies: Marxist Historiography in East Central Europe. (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450 - 1450, 93) 436 pp. 2024:6 (Brill, NE) <718-99>
ISBN 978-90-04-68918-3 hard ¥34,603.- (税込) EUR 147.00

This volume is a unique publication as it examines the Marxist attitudes in East Central European historiography and archaeology for the first time, with an emphasis on the co-existence of Marxist and other methodologies between the 1950s and 1970s in the local historiographies in question. Its approach is to distinguish between pseudo-Marxism as an ideological tool on the one hand, and Marxism in the form of historical materialism as a way to interpret the medieval world on the other. Contributors are: Florin Curta, Piotr Guzowski, Adam Hudek, Tereza Johanidesova, Jitka Komendova, Jiri Machacek, Andrzej Marzec, Martin Nodl, Attila Pok, David Radek, Tadeusz Pawel Rutkowski, Iurie Stamati, Rafal Stobiecki, Gabor Thoroczkay, Przemyslaw Wiszewski, Piotr Wecowski, Martin Wihoda, and Dusan Zupka.