Background
Sewell,, William Hamilton was born on May 15, 1940 in Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States. Son of William Hamilton and Elizabeth Lucille (Shogren) Sewell.
(Work and Revolution in France is particularly appropriate...)
Work and Revolution in France is particularly appropriate for students of French history interested in the crucial revolutions that took place in 1789, 1830, and 1848. Sewell has reconstructed the artisans' world from the corporate communities of the old regime, through the revolutions in 1789 and 1830, to the socialist experiments of 1848. Research has revealed that the most important class struggles took place in craft workshops, not in 'dark satanic mills'. In the 1830s and 1840s, workers combined the collectivism of the corporate guild tradition with the egalitarianism of the revolutionary tradition, producing a distinct artisan form of socialism and class consciousness that climaxed in the Parisian Revolution of 1848. The book follows artisans into their everyday experience of work, fellowship, and struggles and places their history in the context of wider political, economic, and social developments. Sewell analyzes the 'language of labor' in the broadest sense, dealing not only with what the workers and others wrote and said about labour but with the whole range of institutional conventions, economic practices, social struggles, ritual gestures, customs, and actions that gave the workers' world a comprehensive shape.
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( What Is the Third Estate? was the most influential pamp...)
What Is the Third Estate? was the most influential pamphlet of 1789. It did much to set the French Revolution on a radically democratic course. It also launched its author, the Abbé Sieyes, on a remarkable political career that spanned the entire revolutionary decade. Sieyes both opened the revolution by authoring the National Assembly’s declaration of sovereignty in June of 1789 and closed it in 1799 by engineering Napoleon Bonaparte’s coup d’état. This book studies the powerful rhetoric of the great pamphlet and the brilliant but enigmatic thought of its author. William H. Sewell’s insightful analysis reveals the fundamental role played by the new discourse of political economy in Sieyes’s thought and uncovers the strategies by which this gifted rhetorician gained the assent of his intended readers—educated and prosperous bourgeois who felt excluded by the nobility in the hierarchical social order of the old regime. He also probes the contradictions and incoherencies of the pamphlet’s highly polished text to reveal fissures that reach to the core of Sieyes’s thought—and to the core of the revolutionary project itself. Combining techniques of intellectual history and literary analysis with a deep understanding of French social and political history, Sewell not only fashions an illuminating portrait of a crucial political document, but outlines a fresh perspective on the history of revolutionary political culture.
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( While social scientists and historians have been exchan...)
While social scientists and historians have been exchanging ideas for a long time, they have never developed a proper dialogue about social theory. William H. Sewell Jr. observes that on questions of theory the communication has been mostly one way: from social science to history. Logics of History argues that both history and the social sciences have something crucial to offer each other. While historians do not think of themselves as theorists, they know something social scientists do not: how to think about the temporalities of social life. On the other hand, while social scientists’ treatments of temporality are usually clumsy, their theoretical sophistication and penchant for structural accounts of social life could offer much to historians. Renowned for his work at the crossroads of history, sociology, political science, and anthropology, Sewell argues that only by combining a more sophisticated understanding of historical time with a concern for larger theoretical questions can a satisfying social theory emerge. In Logics of History, he reveals the shape such an engagement could take, some of the topics it could illuminate, and how it might affect both sides of the disciplinary divide.
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Sewell,, William Hamilton was born on May 15, 1940 in Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States. Son of William Hamilton and Elizabeth Lucille (Shogren) Sewell.
Bachelor, University Wisconsin, 1962. Master of Arts, University California, 1963. Doctor of Philosophy, University California, 1971.
Instructor history University Chicago, 1968-1971, assistant professor history, 1971-1975. Associate professor history University Arizona, Tucson, 1980-1983, professor history, 1983-1985. Director d'etudes associe Ecole de Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, 1984, 88.
Professor history and sociology University Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1985-1990. Professor political science and history University Chicago, since 1990, Max Palevsky professor, 1996—2004, Frank P. Hixon distinguished service professor, 2004—2007, emeritus professor, 2007. Fellow Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, 1990-1991, National Humanities Center, 2006—2007.
Member board editors Journal Modern History, 1984-1986, French History Studies, 1985-1988, Sociological Theory, 2004-2007. Member, board directors Social Science Research Council, New York City, 1986-1992. Director Program in Comparative Study of Social Transformations, University Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1987-1990, Center for Research Social Organization, 1988-1990.
Director Wilder House Center for Politics, History and Culture, University Chicago, 1999-2004. Member School Social Science Institute Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, 1971-1972, 75-80, 2002-2003.
(Work and Revolution in France is particularly appropriate...)
( While social scientists and historians have been exchan...)
( What Is the Third Estate? was the most influential pamp...)
Fellow American Academy Arts and Science. Member American History Association, Society French History Studies, American Sociological Association (Best Article prize comparative history sociology section 1991, culture section 1993, theory section 1997, Best Book prize, theory section 2008), Social Science History Association (vice president, since 2010).
Married Ellen Martha Wheeler, June 16, 1962 (deceased July 2001). Children: Jessica Ellen, Adrienne Felicity. Married Jan Goldstein, December 2004.