[Marxism] Fwd: Historical Sociology and World History: Uneven and Combined Development over the Longue Durée
Louis Proyect
lnp3 at panix.com
Tue Feb 16 08:18:49 MST 2016
Edited by Alexander Anievas and Kamran Matin
This book is the first to offer a full exploration of the theory of
uneven and combined development
Uneven and combined development was a term that Trotsky used to
understand and to describe the overall dynamics of human history.
Shedding its Marxist overtones, the term has more recently emerged as a
thriving new research program in IR, being used to unify international
and social theory.This volume is the first to provide a collection of
theoretically-informed empirical analyses of sociohistorical change,
transformation, and intersocietal conflict over the longue durée. It
draws from a variety of non-Eurocentric perspectives to show how the
theory of uneven and combined development might offer a solution to
long-standing problems around the inability of both IR and historical
sociology to satisfactorily capture the differentiated and multilinear
character of sociohistorical development. The chapters critically and
creatively draw upon and further develop the concept of ‘uneven and
combined development’ to incorporate both sociological and geopolitical
modes of historical explanation into a single, unified theoretical
framework. The book develops and refines the theory of uneven and
combined development, with critical reflections on its development given
by esteemed scholars in the fields of IR and historical sociology.
http://www.rowmaninternational.com/books/historical-sociology-and-world-history
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