What in the World?
eBook - ePub

What in the World?

Understanding Global Social Change

  1. 316 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

What in the World?

Understanding Global Social Change

About this book

Analysing social change has too often been characterized by parochialism, either a Eurocentrism that projects European experience outwards or a disciplinary narrowness that ignores insights from other academic disciplines. This book moves beyond these limits to develop a global perspective on social change.

The book provincializes Europe in order to analyse European modernity as the product of global developments and brings together renowned scholars from international relations, history and sociology in the search for common understandings. In so doing, it provides a range of promising theoretical approaches, analytical takes and substantive research areas that offer new vistas for understanding change on a global scale.

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Yes, you can access What in the World? by Albert, Mathias,Werron, Tobias,Mathias Albert,Tobias Werron in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Politics & International Relations & Globalisation. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. List of Figures and Tables
  6. Notes on Contributors
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. 1 Introduction: World Society and Its Histories – The Sociology and Global History of Global Social Change
  9. 2 Every Epoch, Time Frame or Date that Is Solid Melts into Air. Does It? The Entanglements of Global History and World Society
  10. 3 Periodization in Global History: The Productive Power of Comparing
  11. 4 Communication, Differentiation and the Evolution of World Society
  12. 5 Field Theory and Global Transformations in the Long Twentieth Century
  13. 6 Organization(s) of the World
  14. 7 Particularly Universal Encounters: Ethnographic Explorations into a Laboratory of World Society
  15. 8 From the First Sino-Roman War (That Never Happened) to Modern International-cum-Imperial Relations: Observing International Politics from an Evolution Theory Perspective
  16. 9 Nationalism as a Global Institution: A Historical-Sociological View
  17. 10 States and Markets: A Global Historical Sociology of Capitalist Governance
  18. 11 The Impact of Communications in Global History
  19. 12 The ‘Long Twentieth Century’ and the Making of World Trade Law
  20. 13 Third-Party Actors, Transparency and Global Military Affairs
  21. 14 Technical Internationalism and Global Social Change: A Critical Look at the Historiography of the United Nations
  22. References
  23. Index