Karl Marx and historical sociology / Duncan Kelly -- Max Weber and the interpretative tradition / Robert Holton -- Evolutionary and functionalist historical sociology / John Holmwood, Maureen O'Malley -- The Annales, Braudel and historical sociology / Peter Burke -- Civilizational complexes and processes: Elias, Nelson and Eisenstadt / John Mandalios -- Historical materialist sociology and revolutions / George C. Comninel -- Theories that won't pass away: the never-ending story of modernization theory / Wolfgang Knobl -- Historical geography and historical sociology: our honest toil and the spatial turn / Susan W. Friedman -- Institutional history: comparative approaches to race and caste / Chris Smaje -- Cultural history is dead (long live the hydra) / John R. Hall -- As intellectual history meets historical sociology: historical sociology after the linguistic turn / Peter Wagner -- Prologue for a genealogy of war and peace: genealogical approaches / Mitchell Dean -- Subaltern studies and postcolonial historiography / Dipesh Chakrabarty -- The cultural logic of historical periodization / Peter Toohey -- East and west: from invidious dichotomy to incomplete deconstruction / Johann P. Arnason -- Classes and nations in recent historical sociology / Robert Fine, Daniel Chernilo -- The formation of the modern state and the institutionalization of rule / Gianfranco Poggi -- The evolution of parliaments: a comparative, historical perspective on assemblies and political decision-making / Tom R. Burns, Masoud Kamali -- Social movements and democratization / Klaus Eder -- The persistence of nationalism: modernity and discourses of the nation / Gerard Delanty -- Architecturing modern nations: architecture and the state / Paul Jones -- Historical sociology of the city / Engin F. Isin -- Historical memory / Bernhard Giesen, Kary Junge -- Gender and patriarchy in historical sociology / Pavla Miller -- Historical sociology of religion: politics and modernity / Bryan S. Turner -- From moral science to moral regulation: social theory's encounter with the moral domain / Alan Hunt.