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Social transformations : a general theory of historical development /

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 human...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sanderson, Stephen K.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©1999.
Edición:Expanded ed.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Evolutionary Materialism: A General Theory of Historical Development
  • 2. The Neolithic Revolution
  • 3. The Origin of Civilization and the State
  • 4. Agrarian States and their Evolutionary Dynamics
  • 5. The Capitalist Revolution and the Beginnings of the Modern World
  • 6. The Evolution of the Modern World, I: The Expanding and Evolving Modern World-System
  • 7. The Evolution of the Modern World, II: The Emergence of the Institutions of Modernity
  • 8. The Question of Progress
  • 9. The Evolving Future
  • 10. Theoretical Reprise
  • Afterword to the Expanded Edition: Biological Constraints on Social Evolution.