Lol, “it hid a masterwork of eventful sociology behind a veil of misconstrued universalizing science”
— William Sewell in “The Three Temporalities” on Charles Tilly’s analysis of French Revolution/counterrevolution in The Vendée.
Academic snark is really entertaining
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“Skocpol has elaborated in States and Social Revolution an extremely effective strategy for what might be dubbed multiple causal narrative....[but her] misplaced obsession with quasi-experimental comparative method has virtually obscured her highly original contribution”
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