Examines the competing theoretical models that historians use to explain the process of change and continuity--including those of the great philosophers and contemporary environmental historians. Green emphasizes the importance of such systematic models for any true appreciation of the dynamic process of historical change.
History and the Historian
History: The Elusive Quarry
The Framework of History
The Dyamics of Historical Change: Europe
Introduction: Search for a Governing Dynamic
The Commercial Model
The Demographic Model
The Marxian Dynamic
Weber, Sombart, and the Spirit of Capitalism
The Dynamics of Historical Change: World History
Introduction: The Global Perspective
World-System Analysis
Environmental History
Summation: The Continuing Pursuit of Order
Bibliography
WILLIAM A. GREEN is Professor of History at Holy Cross College. He is author of British Slave Emancipation: The Sugar Colonies and the Great Experiment, 1830-1865 (1976). He has contributed to six books in European and imperial history and has written many articles for professional journals, including Comparative Studies in Society and History, The Economic History Review, The Journal of British Studies, Victorian Studies, Albion, The Journal of African History, The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, and The Journal of World History.
?Readers will profit from Green's persuasive, commonsense approach
and his straightforward summations of these ideas and their
applications. Advanced undergraduate; graduate; faculty.?-Choice,
October 1993
"Readers will profit from Green's persuasive, commonsense approach
and his straightforward summations of these ideas and their
applications. Advanced undergraduate; graduate; faculty."-Choice,
October 1993
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