History, Politics and Theory in the Great Divergence Debate : : A Comparative Analysis of the California School, World-Systems Analysis and Marxism / / Olya Murphy.
World history suffers from a paucity of clearly articulated, convincing explanations. While the rise of postmodernism and challenges to Eurocentrism did lead to some important correctives, the pendulum has swung too far the other direction, with a corresponding danger of ‘throwing the baby out with...
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Murphy, Olya, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut History, Politics and Theory in the Great Divergence Debate : A Comparative Analysis of the California School, World-Systems Analysis and Marxism / Olya Murphy. München ; Wien : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2023] ©2024 1 online resource (VIII, 228 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Diss. York University 2022. Frontmatter -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Part I: Explaining Divergence: Defending Political Marxism Against the California School -- Chapter 2 Eurocentrism -- Chapter 3 The California School and the “Similarities Thesis” -- Chapter 4 The California School and India -- Part II: World-Systems Analysis -- Chapter 5 Wallerstein’s World System -- Chapter 6 Arrighi’s World System -- Part III: Political Marxism and Historical Materialism: Rivals or Allies? -- Introduction -- Chapter 7 Political Marxism and Historical Materialism: Part 1 -- Chapter 8 Political Marxism and Historical Materialism: Part 2 -- Chapter 9 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star World history suffers from a paucity of clearly articulated, convincing explanations. While the rise of postmodernism and challenges to Eurocentrism did lead to some important correctives, the pendulum has swung too far the other direction, with a corresponding danger of ‘throwing the baby out with the bathwater’. We need careful, theoretically informed debates about ways of organizing world history. What constitutes a good historical explanation? What should guide historians to choose relevant facts? Which theoretical schools could be made useful, and to what ends? These questions are especially relevant to the main topic of this book: the ‘great divergence’ between the west and the rest of the world, and how this historical rupture is to be explained. The book provides extensive critical analyses of some of the key claims in world history, analyzing their strengths as well as their major weaknesses—too often rooted in insufficient familiarity of historians with theories they discard. It also historicizes the field and the debates to partly account for what caused some theories to become more influential and others to fall into oblivion—despite the fact that the more influential frameworks are seriously flawed and some of the more marginalized ideas are more coherent and plausible. The book offers insights regarding the theoretical and political relevance of older debates about the transition to capitalism and historical materialism. Three major schools of thought in world history are critically examined through an in-depth theoretical and comparative analysis that has not been undertaken elsewhere: the so-called ‘California School’, World Systems Analysis, and Marxist theories of history, capitalism, and the transition from feudalism to capitalism. Murphy argues that, despite some of the more recent criticisms of older approaches to world history, the older theories remain indispensable for the writing of world history and for coming to terms with issues of global poverty, inequality and eco-catastrophe. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Jun 2024) Capitalism DLC. East and West DLC. Economic history DLC. Historical materialism DLC. Marxian historiography DLC. North and south DLC. World history Philosophy DLC. Eurozentrismus. Marxismus. The Great Divergence. World System Analysis. HISTORY / Social History. bisacsh Eurocentrism. Marxism. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2024 Part 1 9783111332192 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English 9783111319292 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 9783111318912 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2023 English 9783111319131 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2023 9783111318189 ZDB-23-DEG EPUB 9783111247335 print 9783111246253 https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111247144 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783111247144 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783111247144/original |
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History, Politics and Theory in the Great Divergence Debate : A Comparative Analysis of the California School, World-Systems Analysis and Marxism / Olya Murphy. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Part I: Explaining Divergence: Defending Political Marxism Against the California School -- Chapter 2 Eurocentrism -- Chapter 3 The California School and the “Similarities Thesis” -- Chapter 4 The California School and India -- Part II: World-Systems Analysis -- Chapter 5 Wallerstein’s World System -- Chapter 6 Arrighi’s World System -- Part III: Political Marxism and Historical Materialism: Rivals or Allies? -- Introduction -- Chapter 7 Political Marxism and Historical Materialism: Part 1 -- Chapter 8 Political Marxism and Historical Materialism: Part 2 -- Chapter 9 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index |
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