Past, Present, and Future in the Global Expansion of Capitalism

Title
Past, Present, and Future in the Global Expansion of Capitalism
Publication Date
2005
Author(s)
Lloyd, C
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
StudienVerlag
Place of publication
Austria
UNE publication id
une:306
Abstract
The article deals with the following major themes. First, the theme of la longue durée structural history of the world, concentrating on what can be seen as the central process of the past 500 years - the violent expansion of capitalism as an economic, cultural, and geopolitical system and especially the six kinds of wars that have convulsed, and continue to convulse, the world during the system's rise to global dominance, universality and eventual probable transcendence. Second, the theme of how the concepts of time, evolution, and structurism are able to provide the framework for analysis of long-run societal history and futurology. The article argues that understandings of the past, the present and the future must be united by a social science that is able to reveal the deep as well as surface time of human social structuring and the forms of structured sociality.
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Citation
Osterreichische Zeitschrift fur Geschichtswissenschaften, 16(2), p. 79-103
ISSN
1016-765X
Start page
79
End page
103

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