Macro-history : a theoretical approach to comparative world history

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• Part One : Building a Workable Model, Basic Principles
• Introduction : How to Read This Analysis = 1
• A Brief Description of My Project = 1
• Clarification of My Basic Assumptions and Strategy = 2
• Chapter Ⅰ : History, Queen of the Sciences = 13
• Can History Be Considered a Science? = 13
• The Nature of Historical Truth = 20
• The Unique Function of Historical Science = 25
• The Four Levels of Nature = 27
• Two Additional Challenges to History as a Science = 31
• The Need for Macro-History = 36
• Endnotes = 39
• Chapter Ⅱ : Constructing A Model : First Step, Choosing The Right Basic Unit = 41
• The Correct Unit of Study, Part Ⅰ : The Culture-System = 44
• Part Ⅱ : The Historical Cycle = 56
• Periodization of Western European Culture = 65
• Part Ⅲ : The Five Dimensions = 73
• Geographical Dimension = 76
• Economic Dimension = 78
• Social-Political Dimension = 79
• Intellectual Dimension = 83
• Expressive Dimension = 87
• Conclusion = 90
• Endnotes = 91
• Chapter Ⅲ : The Sequence Of Cycles : Step Two, The Linear Dimension of History = 93
• Six Analytical Levels = 95
• The Macro-Marco Level Spelled Out = 100
• The Macro-Cultural Level = 109
• Culture-Systems of the First Era = 115
• Culture-Systems of the Second Era = 123
• Culture-Systems of the Third Era = 146
• Conclusions = 169
• Endnotes = 171
• Chapter Ⅳ : Beyond Weber and Mumford, A Systems Model for Understanding the History of Cities = 173
• The Weberian Model = 176
• Physical City vs. Social Community = 179
• Open and Closed Systems = 181
• Uncontrolled Systems = 182
• The Controlled System = 186
• Three Historical Ideal Types of Cities = 196
• The Possibility of Cycles = 202
• Conclusions = 207
• Endnotes = 209
• Chapter Ⅴ : The Internal Structure Of The Historical Cycle, A Systems Theory Approach = 211
• The Black Box = 212
• The White Box = 222
• Competition among the Sub-Systems = 229
• Back to the Historical Cycle = 243
• Endnotes = 248
• Part Two : The Three Sub-Systems : The Internal Structure of the Historical Cycle
• Chapter Ⅵ : The Political Sub-System, The Structures of Power = 249
• Defining The Basic Function or Purpose = 253
• The Means : Enforcing Rules = 258
• Another Aspect : Institutions and Stratification = 268
• The Centralization Types : Structure of the Region = 274
• The Density Types : Structure of Power = 291
• The Intensity Types : Structure of Political Action = 301
• Conclusions = 316
• Postscript = 319
• Endnotes = 321
• Chapter Ⅶ : The Economic Sub-System, The Distribution of Wealth = 323
• Production = 325
• Distribution Systems = 334
• Control Mechanisms = 345
• Investment Strategies = 354
• Endnotes = 367
• Chapter Ⅷ : The Cultural Sub-System, Maintaining and Revising the Map = 369
• Part Ⅰ : Basic Functions, Preliminary Considerations = 372
• Five Levels of Information Processing = 375
• Part Ⅱ : The Organizing Structure, Mapping : The Symbolic Structure of Culture = 383
• The Seven Master Myths = 389
• Part Ⅲ : Legitimizing and Elite Formation = 401
• The Informational Level : The Three Strategies = 404
• The Micro-Social Level : Constructing Disciplines = 416
• The Macro-Social Level : Legal Systems = 430
• Public Art : The Artificial Environment = 448
• Part Ⅳ : Shaping the Larger Culture-System = 449
• Structure of the Cultural Dialogue : The Three Cosmologies = 450
• An Illustration : The Western Tradition = 456
• Conclusions = 465
• Endnotes = 469
• Chapter Ⅸ : Space and Time : The Geographical and Historical Environments = 471
• The Geographical Environment = 472
• Landscape, The Cultural View of Nature = 478
• The Historical Environment = 489
• Intercultural Trade = 491
• Diffusion and Cultural Identity = 498
• War and Peace : The Political Sub-System and the Historical Environment = 511
• Intercivilizational Wars = 513
• Frontier Wars = 520
• Civil Wars = 525
• Conclusions = 533
• Endnotes = 534
• Part Three : Culture and the Individual
• Chapter Ⅹ : Art and Identity, Interactions with the Artificial Environment = 537
• Principles Defining the Artificial Environment = 538
• The Artificial Environment and the Three Sub-Systems = 545
• The Cultural Sub-System and the World of Art = 547
• Art and the Three Strategies = 554
• Typologies of the Arts = 558
• The Arts and the Historical Cycle = 570
• Endnotes = 574
• Chapter XI : The Internal Environment : Plato Was Right, Education and the Individual = 575
• Success and the Three Sub-Systems = 576
• Plato and Proper Education = 578
• The Three Age Levels Reconsidered = 581
• Education and the Three Strategies = 588
• Three Methods of Teaching = 592
• The Debate about Happiness and Self-Fulfillment = 600
• History of Western Educational Thought = 604
• Endnotes = 612
• Chapter XII : The Creative Self, The Individual as an Independent Complex System = 613
• The Black Box : The Self in Relationship to its Environments = 618
• The White Box : The Internal Structure of the Self = 639
• Endnotes = 642
• Chapter XIII : The Fourth Level : Historical Innovation and the Inner Quest = 643
• The First Level of Innovation = 644
• The Religious Quest = 649
• Returning to the Culture-System = 660
• Endnotes = 664
• Chapter XIV : Conclusions : Why Study History? = 665
• A Summary of Our Model = 667
• Macro-History as a Research Project = 672
• What about the Future? = 675
• Endnote = 679
• Bibliography = 681
• Index = 703