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Intro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Comparison After Positivism, by Damon Mayrl and Nicholas Hoover Wilson -- Part I. Why Compare? -- 1. The Qualitative-Quantitative Divide in Comparative Historical Analysis, by Stefan Bargheer -- 2. Comparison in Action: Immersion and Recursion as Heuristics in Historical Sociology, by Damon Mayrl -- 3. The Meaningfulness of Comparison: A Macro-Phenomenological Exploration, by Xiaohong Xu -- 4. From Causality to Constitution: Why Good Historical Comparisons Are the Same as Good Ethnographic Case Studies, Deep Down, by Josh Pacewicz -- Part II. What to Compare -- 5. Process Theories and Comparative Sociology: Some Problems and a Solution, by Natalie B. Aviles -- 6. Designing Narratives and Recovering Legal Narrativity: An Exploratory Essay, by Laura R. Ford -- 7. Comparison, Context, and the Power of Modern Corruption, by Nicholas Hoover Wilson -- Part III. How to Compare -- 8. Comparative Sociology, Critical Realism, and Reflexivity, by George Steinmetz -- 9. Historicizing Comparisons in Historical Sociology, by Jonah Stuart Brundage -- 10. How Not to Lie with Comparative Historical Sociology: A Realist Balance Sheet, by Simeon J. Newman -- 11. Historical Causation and Temporally Sensitive Comparisons, by Yang Zhang -- 12. The Dialectical Comparative Methodology, by Rebecca Jean Emigh, Dylan Riley, and Patricia Ahmed -- Afterword, by Philip Gorski -- Contributors -- Index.

This book presents a wide array of warrants and methodologies for comparison to improve explanations of historical change in social-scientific research.