Stephen K. Sanderson

Social Transformations

A General Theory of Historical Development

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In Social Transformations Stephen K. Sanderson develops a general theory of social evolution and uses it to explain the most important evolutionary transformations in human history and prehistory. In this expanded edition Sanderson has added a discussion of the biological constraints acting on humans that have helped to push social evolution along strikingly similar lines throughout the world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 494
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 948g
• ISBN-13: 9780847691876
• ISBN-10: 084769187X
• Artikelnr.: 21069525

Autorenporträt

By Stephen K. Sanderson

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Evolutionary Material: A General Theory of Historical Development
Chapter 2 The Neolithic Revolution Chapter 3 The Origin of Civilization and
the State Chapter 4 Agrarian States and their Evolutionary Dynamics Chapter
5 The Capitalist Revolution and the Beginnings of the Modern World Chapter
6 The Evolution of the Modern World, I: The Expanding and Evolving Modern
World-System Chapter 7 The Evolution of the Modern World, II: The Emergence
of the Institutions of Modernity Chapter 8 The Question of Progress Chapter
9 The Evolving Future Chapter 10 Theoretical Reprise