Macrohistory and Macrohistorians

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Macrohistory and Macrohistorians Perspectives on Individual, Social, and Civilizational Change

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Johan Galtung, Sohail Inayatullah

ISBN: 0-275-95755-1

ISBN-13: 978-0-275-95755-1

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288 pages

Praeger Publishers

Publication: 9/30/1997

List Price: $125.00 (UK Sterling Price: £86.95)

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Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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Description: This dazzlingly original collaboration between two international authors focuses on 20 macrohistorians—that is to say, historians who have helped shape our entire way of conceiving ourselves—from Ssu-Ma Ch'ien and Ibn Khaldun to Oswald Spengler and Marx and Piritim Sorokin and Arnold Toynbee. The authors move toward a general theory of grand social change based on the writings of these macrohistorians and provide a comparative view of macrohistory and sociology.

The book brings a cross-cultural and transhistorical perspective to the study of social change, analyzing macrohistorians and macrohistory comparatively and synthetically, from the traditional linear-cyclical divide as well as including broader transcendental and feminist approaches. Like a road map par excellence for the study of civilizational change, the book captures the panoramic sweep of history and helps readers learn to appreciate, and henceforth include in the circle of greats, those non-Western thinkers whose work they may until now have neglected.^L ^L Johan Galtung, Sohail Inayatullah, and the other contributors to ^IMacrohistory and Macrohistorians^R demonstrate that each generation may give new perspectives to ideas that we thought we understood. The book covers the vital perspective out of which the 21st century emerges, and in the cases of Sorokin, Toynbee, and Eisler, deals with theories directly bearing on the potential shape of the next thousand years. It brings a cross-cultural and transhistorical perspective to the study of social change and will be of considerable interest to historians and sociologists as well as students of philosophy, historiography, and political science.

Table of Contents:

Preface
An Introduction to Macrohistory and Macrohistorians by Johan Galtung
Twenty Macrohistorians: A Presentation, edited by Sohail Inayatullah
Macrohistorians Compared: Toward a Theory of Macrohistory by Sohail Inayatullah
Macrohistorians Combined: Toward Eclecticism by Johan Galtung
Social Macrohistory as Metaphor for Personal Macrohistory by Johan Galtung
Social Macrohistory as Metaphor for World Macrohistory by Johan Galtung
Appendices
Bibliography

About the Author: JOHAN GALTUNG is Professor of Peace Studies at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, Universitet i Tromsö, and Universität Witten/Herdecke. He is a past winner of the Right Livelihood Award (informally known as the alternative Nobel Peace Prize). He is the author or editor of more than 71 books.

SOHAIL INAYATULLAH is presently Senior Research Fellow at Queensland University of Technology and author of numerous books on Islamic and Indian perspectives on social theory./e

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