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Macrohistory - Essays in Sociology of the Long Run (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
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Macrohistory - Essays in Sociology of the Long Run (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
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This book explores the accomplishments of the golden age of
"macrohistory," the sociologically informed analysis of long-term
patterns of political, economic, and social change that has reached
new heights of sophistication in the last decades of the twentieth
century.
It describes the scholarly revolution that has taken place in the
Marxian-inspired theory of revolutions, the shift to a
state-breakdown model in which revolutions, rather than bubbling up
from discontent below, start at the top in the fiscal strains of
the state. The author links revolutions to military-centered
transformations of the state, and reviews how he used this theory
in the early 1980s to predict the breakdown of the Soviet empire.
He goes on to show the implications of viewing states and societies
from the outside in, including the geopolitical patterns that
affect the legitimacy of dominant ethnic groups and thus determine
the direction of ethnic assimilation or fragmentation. Another
application is the author's new theory of democratization, which
asserts that democracy depends not merely on a widening of the
franchise but on a geopolitical pattern favoring federated
structures of collegially shared power.
Using this new theoretical tool, the author argues that Anglophone
scholars have polemically misinterpreted German history, and that
the roots of the Holocaust cannot be determined by German-bashing
but must be attributed to processes that affect all of us. Other
essays generalize about the historical dynamics and transformations
of markets. Going beyond Weber's Eurocentric model, the author
proposes a more general theory that explains the origins of
capitalism in Japan on an independent but parallel path.
General
Imprint: |
Stanford University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
December 1999 |
Authors: |
Randall Collins
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 33mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth / Cloth
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Pages: |
328 |
Edition: |
illustrated edition |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8047-3523-0 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Sociology, social studies >
Social theory
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LSN: |
0-8047-3523-9 |
Barcode: |
9780804735230 |
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