… snapshots of the state of contemporary history around the world. Barraclough, writing his
classic study of contemporary history in 1960, concluded: The European Age - the age which …

… the making, and we have accumulated many debts along the … , who commissioned the
project and helped see it to the end, and … steered the project through production, Sue Finlay, the …

… It makes for better understanding of contemporary government, not just through knowing
the “roots” but through realizing that our “system” is no better or worse then earlier systems. …

… the broad and interdisciplinary field of contemporary European social theory. It covers sociological
theory, the wider theoretical traditions in the … thought in the broadest sense of the term. …

… who have all supported the production of the Handbook in different ways. Finally, we
dedicate this Handbook to the memory of Bill Rathje, whose pioneering work on the Tucson …

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… These authors and reviewers were living contemporary family lifestyles and experiencing
many of the issues presented in this book even as they wrote about them. We are indebted to …

… However, on looking more closely at those handbooks, I realized that they contained little
history, and most of that was contemporary.1 So I suggested a handbook on the history of …

… “The greatest asset of this volume is that the authors are themselves social psychologists
who identify with the discipline and participated to its amazing growth. Consequently, the …

… In compiling this Handbook of Political Theory our aim has been to provide both a
comprehensive mapping of the terrain of contemporary political theory and in-depth analyses. We …