1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910154646903321

Autore

Chirot Daniel

Titolo

How societies change / / Daniel Chirot

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Thousand Oaks, Calif. ; ; London, : Pine Forge, c1994

ISBN

1-4522-2026-3

1-4522-2101-4

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvii, 144 p.) : maps

Collana

Sociology for a new century

Disciplina

303.4

Soggetti

Social change

Social evolution

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [135]-138) and index.

Sommario/riassunto

How do the world's societies differ from each other? What were the reasons for change in the past, and do they help us in predicting change in the future? Daniel Chirot shows how the UK, a marginal agrarian civilization on the edge of Europe, produced through the industrial revolution changes which transformed the world.