The relation of culture to history: a review of Marshall Sahlins's Apologies to Thucydides and William Sewell's Logics of History (1).(Apologies to Thucydides: Understanding History as Culture and Vice Versa)(Logics of History: Social Theory and Social Transformation)(Book review)

Apologies to Thucydides: Understanding History as Culture and Vice Versa. By Marshall Sahlins. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. 320 pages.

Logics of History: Social Theory and Social Transformation. Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning. By William H. Sewell, Jr. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. 376 pages.

Several key problematics have dominated modern social theory; not the least is the relationship, the entwinement, the dialectic between culture and history. Apologies to Thucydides: Understanding History as Culture and Vice Versa represents the ...

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