Steven Ruggles' Book Review and Responses to
Reading History Sideways

Ruggles, Steven. March 2006. "A Brief Response to Thornton's Response to my Response to his Response to my Critique of Reading History Sideways."

Ruggles, Steven. 2006. Book review of Reading History Sideways, Population and Development Review 32(1). Forthcoming.

Ruggles, Steven. February 2006. "Response to Thornton's response to my critique of Reading History Sideways." Working Paper.

Ruggles, Steven. November 2005. "Reading History Backwards; a comment on Thornton's Reading History Sideways." Presentation slides for comments at Social Science History Association meetings.

Please see Arland Thornton's response to Ruggles' comments on Reading History Sideways [PDF] for more information.

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Developmental Idealism Studies
Population Studies Center
University of Michigan

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Book Award

Arland Thornton's book Reading History Sideways wins the William J. Goode Book Award of the ASA Section on the Sociology of the Family.

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Reading History Sideways

The method of reading history sideways is described and critiqued by Arland Thornton.


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