The Ephemeral Civilization : Exploding the Myth of Social Evolution

ISBN-13: 9780415169950 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 600 str.

Graeme Snooks;Graeme Snooks

Opis

This work is a controversial attempt to explain systematically not only the changing nature of human civilization over the past 3000 years, but also to interpret a wide range of historical issues and events. It challenges the prevailing theories of social evolutionism with an innovative approach which also looks ahead to the 21st century. It builds on the model of dynamic strategy outlined in the companion volume. Divided into three parts, this book covers theory, history and future.

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. Snooks challenges the prevailing theories of social evolutionism with an innovative approach which also looks ahead to the twenty-first century. The Ephemeral Civilization builds on the model of dynamic strategy outlined in the author's highly acclaimed companion volume, The Dynamic Society.
The Ephemeral Society is divided into three parts - theory, history and future.

O autorze

Graeme Snooks