Sociological studies sensitive to the issue of place are rarely labeled thus, and at the same
time there are far too many of them to fit in this review. It may be a good thing that this …

Research on violent mobilization broadly emphasizes who joins rebellions and why, but
neglects to explain the timing or nature of participation. Support and logistical apparatuses …

One of the debates surrounding social network analysis has been whether it consists of a
method or a theory. Is network analysis merely a cluster of techniques for analyzing the …

Studies at the confluence of history and social science address issues of causation in three
ways: morphological, variable-centered, and genetic. These approaches to causal …

A central question in civil war research is how state sponsorship, overseas funding,
involvement in illicit economics, and access to lootable resources affect the behavior and …

Nearly half of all countries emerging from civil conflict relapse into war within a few years of
signing a peace agreement. The postwar trajectories of armed groups vary from …

This remarkable history foregrounds the most marginal sector of the Roman population, the
provincial peasantry, to paint a fascinating new picture of peasant society. Making use of …

While structure and culture often are proclaimed dual and yet autonomous, this paper spells
out a processual approach in which structure and culture are seen as intertwined and …

This paper discusses the application of the kind of formal network methods more commonly
used in sociology to historical materials and especially to rural history. It addresses …

The only true voyage would be not to travel through a hundred different lands with the same
pair of eyes, but to see the same land with a hundred different pairs of eyes. Marcel …