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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham :
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,
©1999.
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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.