03303nam 2200673 a 450 991081167480332120200520144314.01-107-11661-90-511-31023-40-521-64348-11-280-15509-40-511-15053-90-511-11745-00-511-61226-50-511-05190-5(CKB)111056485624658(EBL)147317(OCoLC)437073022(SSID)ssj0000218722(PQKBManifestationID)11185197(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000218722(PQKBWorkID)10220810(PQKB)10405453(UkCbUP)CR9780511612268(MiAaPQ)EBC147317(Au-PeEL)EBL147317(CaPaEBR)ebr2000819(CaONFJC)MIL15509(EXLCZ)9911105648562465819980812d1999 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe paths of history /Igor M. DiakonoffCambridge, U.K. ;New York Cambridge University Press19991 online resource (xi, 355 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).0-521-64398-8 0-511-01923-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Preliminaries; Contents; Foreword by Geoffrey Hoskins; Preface; Introduction; 1 First Phase (Primitive); 2 Second Phase (Primitive Communal); 3 Third Phase (Early Antiquity); 4 Fourth Phase (Imperial Antiquity); 5 Fifth Phase (the Middle Ages); 6 Sixth Phase (the Stable Absolutist Post-Medieval Phase); 7 Seventh Phase (Capitalist); 8 Eighth Phase (Post-Capitalist); IndexThis is a broad and ambitious study of the entire history of humanity which takes as its point of departure Marx's theory of social evolution. However, Professor Diakonoff's theory of world history differs from Marx's in a number of ways. Firstly he has expanded Marx's five stages of development to eight. Secondly he denies that social evolution necessarily implies progress and shows how 'each progress is simultaneously a regress', and thirdly he demonstrates that the transition from one stage to another is not necessarily marked by social conflict and that sometimes this is achieved peacefully and gracefully. As the book moves through these various stages, the reader is drawn into a remarkable and thought-provoking study of the process of the history of the human race which focuses on the wide range of factors (economic, social, military-technological, and socio-pyschological) which have influenced our development from palaeolithic times to the present day.HistoryPhilosophyHistoryPeriodizationHistoriographyHistoryPhilosophy.HistoryPeriodization.Historiography.901Diakonov Igor Mikhailovich638480MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910811674803321The paths of history4015463UNINA