The Paths of History

Igor M. Diakonoff

ISBN 10: 0521643481 / ISBN 13: 9780521643481

Edité par Cambridge University Press, 1999

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - 'The Paths of History provides an overview of the entire history of humanity and the laws governing it. This study takes as its point of departure Marx's theory of social evolution. Igor M. Diakonoff has expanded Marx's five stages of development to eight. In addition, and in contrast to Marx, Diakonoff denies that our transition from one stage to the next is marked by social conflict and revolution and demonstrates that these transitions are sometimes achieved peacefully and gracefully. Professor Diakonoff's focus is not limited solely to the economic and socio-economic aspects of our development; rather he examines in detail the ethnic, cultural, religious and military-technological factors which have been brought to bear over the centuries. He also denies that social evolution necessarily implies progress and shows how 'each progress is simultaneously a regress'. Finally the book concludes with a prognosis for the future of humanity.'--BOOK JACKET.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Paths of History
• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date de parution: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0521643481
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780521643481
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 235 L x 157 H x 26 P (en millimètres) 235 millimètres de largeur par 157 millimètres de hauteur par 26 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 747 grammes

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Synopsis

A history of mankind from palaeolithic times to the present day by a leading scholar of world history.

Présentation de l'éditeur

This is a broad and ambitious study of the entire history of humanity which takes as its point of departure Marx's theory of social evolution. However, Professor Diakonoff's theory of world history differs from Marx's in a number of ways. Firstly he has expanded Marx's five stages of development to eight. Secondly he denies that social evolution necessarily implies progress and shows how 'each progress is simultaneously a regress', and thirdly he demonstrates that the transition from one stage to another is not necessarily marked by social conflict and that sometimes this is achieved peacefully and gracefully. As the book moves through these various stages, the reader is drawn into a remarkable and thought-provoking study of the process of the history of the human race which focuses on the wide range of factors (economic, social, military-technological, and socio-pyschological) which have influenced our development from palaeolithic times to the present day.