| Summary: | It has been almost four decades since the work of the American historian William H. Sewell Jr. sought to create a dialogue between history and the other social sciences, most notably sociology and anthropology. Two sequences can be distinguished in his theoretical work. In response to North-American paradigms, Sewell first studied the question of temporalities in the early 1990s, particularly the analytical categorisation of events. But over the past ten years, Sewell’s work has revisited capitalism as a phenomenon which produces and generates specific temporalities. The translation of The Capitalist Epoch is consistent with this. Capitalism is understood as possessing a clear unity which, despite its regular changes of form and content, means that it can be viewed as an epoch in its own right.
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