The Extended Case Method: Four Countries, Four Decades, Four Great Transformations, and One Theoretical Tradition

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The Extended Case Method Four Countries, Four Decades, Four Great Tra_ nsformations) and One Theoretical Tradition

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Chapters 2, 3, and 4 are slightly revised versions of articles that first appeared in Sociological Theo1y I6, no.

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CONTENTS ·.

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Prologue: Bringing Theory to the Field .

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Introduction: From Manchester to Berkeley by Way of Chicago I I.

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The Extended Case Method:

Race and Class in Postcolonial Africa 19 .

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The Ethnographic Revisit:

Capitalism in Transition and Other Histories 73

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