Description |
x, 315 pages ; 24 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [277]-295) and index. |
Contents |
World history in the west : an interrupted dialogue with providence -- Evolutionary ethics and the rise of the world state : the universal history of H.G. Wells -- The problem of Oswald Spengler -- The religious premises and goals of Arnold Toynbee's world history -- The imperatives of supersystem transitions : Pitirim Sorokin's metahistory -- Christopher Dawson : the tension between history and its end -- Lewis Mumford : the generalist as metahistorian -- William H. McNeill's ecological mythistory : toward an ambiguous future -- World history and eschatology : the goals of the metahistorians |
Subject |
Historiography -- History -- 20th century.
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ISBN |
0875801730 |
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