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Colloquium: The Emergence of Capitalism

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Spring 2023 Critical Historical Studies Now Available

Fall 2022 Critical Historical Studies Now Available

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Spring 2022 Critical Historical Studies Now Available

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3CT Fellows in the News

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The Fall of Robespierre: 24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris

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Fall 2021 Critical Historical Studies Now Available

3CT Fellows in the News

Capitalism and the Emergence of Civic Equality in Eighteenth-Century France

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Spring 2021 Critical Historical Studies Now Available

New Titles from Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning

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Capitalism and the Emergence of Civic Equality in Eighteenth-Century France

New Issue of Critical Historical Studies

Logics of History: Social Theory and Social Transformation

Social Theory and Social Transformation: A Conference in Honor of William H. Sewell, Jr.

Global Crisis: Rethinking Economy and Society

Critical Historical Studies

Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Work

3CT Inaugural Symposium: Theorizing the Present

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Logics of History: Social Theory and Social Transformation

Work: Photographs by Bill Sewell

Critical Historical Studies Launch Party

The Calling of History

The Capitalization of Nature, or, The Limits of Historical Nature

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William H. Sewell Jr.

10 Years of Theory

Returning to Basics: Critique and Crisis

History, Social Theory, and Capitalism

The ongoing global economic crisis poses a serious challenge to our understanding of large-scale social processes and, hence, of our own historical circumstances. History, Social Theory, and Capitalism seeks to interrogate the relation of social and economic inquiry to changes in the large-scale configurations of society, economy and polity.