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Patterns of Social Capital: Stability and Change in Historical Perspective
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Rothberg, Robert I. (ed.). Patterns of Social Capital: Stability and Change in Historical Perspective. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 394pp.
As the title suggests, this book surveys the utility of social capital as a theoretical construct. The distinguished contributors to this edited collection first published their chapters as articles in two special issues of The Journal of Interdisciplinary History. The editor of this book, Rotberg, provides a very useful overview and summary of the chapters included in this volume in his introductory chapter. This book, while ...
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