What in the World?

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What in the World?

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Edited by Mathias Albert, Universität Bielefeld, Germany, Tobias Werron, Universität Bielefeld, Germany

Publisher:: Bristol University Press
Online publication date:: December 2021
Print publication year:: 2020
Online ISBN:: 9781529213348
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.46692/9781529213348

Subjects:: Politics and International Relations, International Relations and International Organisations

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Moving beyond the limits of parochialism, this book develops a truly global perspective on social change. It brings together renowned scholars from across disciplines and provides a range of promising theoretical approaches, analytical takes and substantive research areas that offer new vistas for understanding change on a global scale.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

List of Figures and Tables
pp vii-vii

Notes on Contributors
pp viii-xi

Acknowledgements
pp xii-xii

1 - Introduction: World Society and Its Histories – The Sociology and Global History of Global Social Change
pp 1-24

2 - Every Epoch, Time Frame or Date that Is Solid Melts into Air. Does It? The Entanglements of Global History and World Society
pp 25-42

3 - Periodization in Global History: The Productive Power of Comparing
pp 43-62

4 - Communication, Differentiation and the Evolution of World Society
pp 63-80

5 - Field Theory and Global Transformations in the Long Twentieth Century
pp 81-98

6 - Organization(s) of the World
pp 99-116

7 - Particularly Universal Encounters: Ethnographic Explorations into a Laboratory of World Society
pp 117-138

8 - From the First Sino-Roman War (That Never Happened) to Modern International-cum-Imperial Relations: Observing International Politics from an Evolution Theory Perspective
pp 139-156

9 - Nationalism as a Global Institution: A Historical-Sociological View
pp 157-176

10 - States and Markets: A Global Historical Sociology of Capitalist Governance
pp 177-194

11 - The Impact of Communications in Global History
pp 195-210

12 - The ‘Long Twentieth Century’ and the Making of World Trade Law
pp 211-226

13 - Third-Party Actors, Transparency and Global Military Affairs
pp 227-242

14 - Technical Internationalism and Global Social Change: A Critical Look at the Historiography of the United Nations
pp 243-264

References
pp 265-298

Index
pp 299-303

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