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Disruption - Why Things Change (Hardcover)
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Disruption - Why Things Change (Hardcover)
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How do things change? The question is critical to the historical
study of any era but it is also a profoundly important issue today
as western democracies find the fundamental tenets of their
implicit social contract facing extreme challenges from forces
espousing ideas that once flourished only on the outskirts of
society. This books argues that radical change always begins with
ideas that took shape on the fringes. Throughout time the
"mainstream" has been inherently conservative, allowing for
incremental change but essentially dedicated to preserving its own
power structures as the dominant ideology justifies existing
relationships. In this tour of radical change across Western
history, David Potter will show how ideologies that develop in
opposition or reaction to those supporting the status quo are
employed to effect profound changes in political structures that
will in turn alter the way that social relations are constructed.
Not all radical groups are the same, and all the groups that the
book will explore take advantage of challenges that have already
shaken the social order. They take advantage of mistakes that have
challenged belief in the competence of existing institutions to be
effective. It is the particular combination of an alternative
ideological system and a period of community distress that are
necessary conditions for radical changes in direction. The
historical disruptions chronicled in this book-the rise of
Christianity, rise of Islam, Protestant reformations, Age of
Revolution (American and French), and Bolshevism and Nazism-will
help readers understand when the preconditions exist for radical
changes in the social and political order. As Disruption
demonstrates, not all radical change follows paths that its
original proponents might have predicted. An epilogue helps situate
contemporary disruptions, from the rise of Trump and Brexit to the
social and political consequences of technological change, in the
wider historical forces surveyed by the book.
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