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mulated as an ideal-typical concept and used for analytical purposes." 20
It is this Weberian thread that runs through so much of Kocka's work
and enables him to build bridges between individual disciplines and his-
torical genres as well as between different national cultures. At a time
when many economic and business historians continue to plow tradi-
tional methodological furrows and when cultural historians increasingly
have lost all interest in the economic sphere; when the former show lit-
tle concern for the role of mentalities, perceptions, and barely tangible
sensibilities in human behavior, the latter ignoring the realm of produc-
tion and material conditions; when one side assumes that being deter-
mines consciousness, the other postulating that consciousness defines
our existence, it may be useful to remember and study the interdepen-
dencies to which the founding fathers of modern sociology and social
history first drew our attention.In this sense this volume therefore is also intended as a challenge to
abandon persistent departmental separatism and, if nothing else, to
restart a dialogue between those interested in economic and techno-
logical phenomena and those dealing with culture. Kocka oeuvre
shows ways this might be done profitably for all disciplines, genres, and
countries involved.
Notes
1. See, e.g., G. G. Iggers, The German Conception of History ( Middletown, CT, 1968).
2. See, e.g., G. G. Iggers, ed., New Directions in European History, ( Middletown, CT,
1975).
3. See, e.g., C. Buchheim, Die Wiedereingliederung Westdeutschlands in die Weltwirtschaft,
1945-1958 ( Munich, 1990); W. Abelshauser, Wirtschaft in Westdeutschland, 1945-
1948 ( Stuttgart, 1975).
4. B. Klemm and G. J. Trittel, "Vor dem 'Wirtschaftswunder': Durchbruch zum Wach-
stum oder Lähmungskrise?" Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 35 ( 1987): 571-624.
5. See, e.g., A. J. Taylor, ed., The Standard of Living in Britain in the Industrial Revolu-
tion ( London, 1975).
6. See, e.g., D. F. Crew, "Alltagsgeschichte: A New Social History 'From Below'?" Cen-
tral European History, December 1989: 394-407.
7. New York, 1992.
8. New York, 1997.
9. Unpublished manuscript, Chapel Hill, NC, 1965.
10. Respectively, Göttingen, 1977; and London, 1980.
11. J. Kocka, Unternehmensverwaltung und Angestelltenschaft am Beispiel Siemens, 1847-
1914 ( Stuttgart, 1969).
12. . Ibid., p. 17.

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