1st Edition

World Order in History Russia and the West

By Paul Dukes Copyright 1996
208 Pages
by Routledge

World Order in History argues that historians' ideas about world order have been influential in transforming nations' sense of themselves. Paul Dukes demonstrates how a series of successive historians and analysts attempt to make sense of the world in which they live, often appropriating intellectual ideas spawned in different contexts in order to do so. Hindsight allows us to view stages in the... Read more
Preface Introduction: Russia, the West and the World 1. Montesquieu and Constitutional Order, 1748-1799 2. Marx and Revolutionary Order, 1867-1922 3. From European Towards Atlantic History, 1900-1922 4. Some Approaches to World History, 1923-1962 5. Russia, the West and the World: Conclusion

Biography

Paul Dukes