London: Routledge, 1990. — 284 p. — ISBN10: 0044457537; ISBN13: 978-0044457534. Rethinking Progress provides a challenging reevaluation of one of the crucial ideas of Western civilization; the notion of progress. Progress often seems to have become self-defeating, producing ecological deserts, overpopulated cities, exhausted resources, decaying cultures, and widespread feelings...
Lund: Studentlitteratur, 2004. — 327 s. — ISBN: 91-44-03679-5. Hur används det förflutna för att skapa kunskap? Vilken historia kan museerna berätta? Hur påverkar filmer som Utvandrarna och Schindlers list landskapsuppfattning och historiesyn? Varför reser man monument? Hur fungerar en självbiografi? Frågorna rör hur det förflutna gestaltas till historia i olika delar av...
Springer, 2018. — 110 p. — (SpringerBriefs in Sociology). — ISBN10: 3319704362, 13 978-3319704364. This book provides a detailed reconstruction of the process of formation of the modern concept of society as an objective entity from the 1820s onwards, thus helping to better understand the shaping of the modern world and the nature of the current crisis of modernity. The concept...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 352 p. Arising from renewed engagement with Charles Tilly's canonical work on the relationship between war and state formation, this volume situates Tilly's work in a broader theoretical landscape and brings it into contemporary debates on state formation theory. Starting with Tilly's famous dictum 'war made the state, and the state made...
Oneworld Publications Ltd., 1992. — 281 p. This is an analysis of the nature, causes and consequences of the crisis of modern society. Professor Sorokin asserts that the whole of modern culture is undergoing a period of transition brought on by the struggle between the forces of the largely outworn materialistic order and the emerging, creative forces of a new idealistic order....
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