How history can use sociology and vice versa strictly for specialists in both fields. The former question is hotter, because sociologists' concern with history took a nose dive in the Thirties, got utterly scrapped during the Fifties' heyday of "empirical" data on scattered, narrow subjects. Mills and Reisman urged a return to macroscopic, historically oriented analysis (but, as Hofstadter points out here, they themselves failed to do so). These essays display the concern with methodology for its own sake which Mills deplored, and the topics mostly stay within American history. Authors include Benson, Baltzell, Donald, Merritt, Thernstrom and Lazarsfeld. The effort to keep the best in the quantitative approach predominates; a trend toward comparative, cross-disciplinary study is also perceptible. The editors are prominent professors of history and sociology respectively. But as anthologizers they must how to Levitas (Culture and Consciousness, 1967) and Lindenfeld (Reader in Political Sociology, 1967), who excelled in delineating the issues and presenting a genuine diversity of selections.
Pub Date: June 15, 1968
ISBN: 0465079938
Page Count: 183
Publisher: Basic Books
Review Posted Online: Oct. 13, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1968
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Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis...
Privately published by Strunk of Cornell in 1918 and revised by his student E. B. White in 1959, that "little book" is back again with more White updatings.
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis (whoops — "A bankrupt expression") a unique guide (which means "without like or equal").Pub Date: May 15, 1972
ISBN: 0205632645
Page Count: 105
Publisher: Macmillan
Review Posted Online: Oct. 28, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1972
This is not the Nutcracker sweet, as passed on by Tchaikovsky and Marius Petipa. No, this is the original Hoffmann tale of 1816, in which the froth of Christmas revelry occasionally parts to let the dark underside of childhood fantasies and fears peek through. The boundaries between dream and reality fade, just as Godfather Drosselmeier, the Nutcracker's creator, is seen as alternately sinister and jolly. And Italian artist Roberto Innocenti gives an errily realistic air to Marie's dreams, in richly detailed illustrations touched by a mysterious light. A beautiful version of this classic tale, which will captivate adults and children alike. (Nutcracker; $35.00; Oct. 28, 1996; 136 pp.; 0-15-100227-4)
Pub Date: Oct. 28, 1996
ISBN: 0-15-100227-4
Page Count: 136
Publisher: Harcourt
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 15, 1996
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