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What in the world? : understanding global social change /

Moving beyond the limits of parochialism, this book develops a truly global perspective on social change. It brings together renowned scholars from across disciplines and provides a range of promising theoretical approaches, analytical takes and substantive research areas that offer new vistas for u...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Albert, Mathias (Editor), Werron, Tobias (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2021.
Series:Bristol studies in international theory
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1 Introduction: World Society and Its Histories - The Sociology and Global History of Global Social Change
  • 2 Every Epoch, Time Frame or Date that Is Solid Melts into Air. Does It? The Entanglements of Global History and World Society
  • 3 Periodization in Global History: The Productive Power of Comparing
  • 4 Communication, Differentiation and the Evolution of World Society
  • 5 Field Theory and Global Transformations in the Long Twentieth Century
  • 6 Organization(s) of the World
  • 7 Particularly Universal Encounters: Ethnographic Explorations into a Laboratory of World Society
  • 8 From the First Sino-Roman War (That Never Happened) to Modern International-cum-Imperial Relations
  • 9 Nationalism as a Global Institution: A Historical-Sociological View
  • 10 States and Markets: A Global Historical Sociology of Capitalist Governance
  • 11 The Impact of Communications in Global History
  • 12 The 'Long Twentieth Century' and the Making of World Trade Law
  • 13 Third-Party Actors, Transparency and Global Military Affairs
  • 14 Technical Internationalism and Global Social Change: A Critical Look at the Historiography of the United Nations