Graeme Snooks

The Ephemeral Civilization

Exploding the Myth of Social Evolution

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Produktbeschreibung

The Ephemeral Civilization is an astonishing intellectual feat in which Graeme Snooks develops an original and ground-breaking analysis of changing sociopolitical forms over the past 3,000 years.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 600
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 830g
• ISBN-13: 9780415862516
• ISBN-10: 0415862515
• Artikelnr.: 37325274

Autorenporträt

Graeme Donald Snooks is the Coghlan Professor and Head of the Department of Economic History at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Australian National University. He has published widely on many central issues in economic history - including very long run growth, the family, human motivation, and a new role for history - and is editor of a number of prestigious book series.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface 1 THE MYTH OF SOCIAL EVOLUTION Part I Theory Part IA: Strategic
theory 2 A REALIST MODEL OF HUMAN BEHAVIOUR 3 A NEW MODEL OF INSTITUTIONAL
CHANGE Part IB: Evolutionary theory 4 THE ETHEREAL WORLD OF
INSTITUTIONALISM 5 THE ROBOTIC WORLD OF SOCIO BIOLOGY Part II History Part
IIA: Conquest society 6 ROME: SANCTUARY OF THE WOLF 7 TENOCHTITLAN :
CITADEL OF THE SUN Part IIB: Commerce society 8 GREECE: JEWEL OF THE AEGEAN
9 VENICE: APPARITION OF THE ADRIATIC Part IIC: Technological society 10
ENGLAND: ALBION AWAKENING 11 THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: PHOENIX RISING
Part III Future 12 THE COMING CLASH OF THE MEGA-STATES: USA, EU, RUSSIA,
CHINA 13 A GLOBAL-STATE?