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

by Johan Galtung and Sohail Inayatullah

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275957551
• ISBN13: 9780275957551
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.6"