Analytical Models

This page for our class site will focus on different types of lenses we may use to help us analyze and explain historical events with a more critical approach.

I have attached a few documents that are presented in class at different points in our studies you may also reference the following links for brief descriptions of some of the models we use over the course of class.

Revolutions

Crane Brinton's Anatomy of a Revolution

Application Chart for historical revolutions at Watt's World of History this may be helpful in applying Brinton's model to other

revolutions and events.

Theda Skocpol on revolutions Brief descriptions of Skocpol's work

States and Social Revolutions Google Books version of Skocpol's book on Revolutions

Michael Walzer on Revolution of the Saints Google Books version of Walzer's major text on Revolutions

Big Ideas on Revolutions PBS documentary link on Walzer and his work

Barrington Moore Social Origins of Dictatorships and Democracy Google Books version of Moore's major text on Revolutions

Necessity / Sufficiency

at Plato/ Stanford

James Mahoney in the Annual Review of Sociology Perhaps a little more in depth than you need but provides a detailed explanation of Necessity and Sufficiency in historical analysis.

Ideal Types

Max Weber at Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy description of ideal type

at Duke University, Tim Buthe handout description of ideal type with further tie ins to Weber on types of authority

See Max Weber, (full page at Plato at Stanford)

International Relations

Kenneth Waltz Man, The State, and War