Making global society : a study of humankind across three eras
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Making global society : a study of humankind across three eras
（Cambridge studies in international relations）
Cambridge University Press, 2023
- : pbk
Available at 4 libraries
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 427-453) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Barry Buzan proposes a new approach to making International Relations a truly global discipline that transcends both Eurocentrism and comparative civilisations. He narrates the story of humankind as a whole across three eras, using its material conditions and social structures to show how global society has evolved. Deploying the English School's idea of primary institutions and setting their story across three domains - interpolity, transnational and interhuman - this book conveys a living historical sense of the human story whilst avoiding the overabstraction of many social science grand theories. Buzan sharpens the familiar story of three main eras in human history with the novel idea that these eras are separated by turbulent periods of transition. This device enables a radical retelling of how modernity emerged from the late 18th century. He shows how the concept of 'global society' can build bridges connecting International Relations, Global Historical Sociology and Global/World History.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- Part I. Laying the Foundations for a Global Society: 2. Pre-prelude - the hunter-gatherer era
- 3. Prelude - the era of conglomerate agrarian/pastoralist empires 2310BC to 1800AD
- Part II. The Transition to Modernity and the Making of Global Society: 4. Material conditions
- 5a. Social structure I - CAPE instructions carried forward into the transition
- 5b. Social structure II - institutions new with the transition
- 6. Where are we within the transition from CAPE to modernity
- Part III. Deep Pluralism: More Transition or Modernity Proper?: 7. Material conditions
- 8. Social structure
- Part IV. Conclusions: 9. Conclusions.
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