Notes for Authors.

The Journal of Historical Sociology (JHS) was founded in 1988 on the conviction that historical and social studies have a common subject matter. It welcomes articles that contribute to the historically grounded understanding of social and cultural phenomena, whatever their disciplinary provenance or theoretical standpoint. The journal is open to topic, period and place and seek to be as international as possible in both the content and the authorship of articles. Alongside articles, it carries occasional essays on "Schools and Scholars" and of "Review and Commentary," and shorter pieces in the "Issues and Agendas" section which are designed deliberately to provoke. A typical JHS article will contain little by way of extended literature review, will say something substantial and new about its empirical subject-matter, will be aware of the theoretical implications of its topic without turning into an abstruse discussion of pure theory and will be of interest to readers beyond a specialist geographical or disciplinary audience.