1st Edition

The Laws of History

By Graeme Snooks Copyright 1998
312 Pages
by Routledge

312 Pages
by Routledge

312 Pages
by Routledge

This is an original and controversial reflection on the course of human history and a remarkable attempt to develop a scientific model of laws for the social sciences. It: * considers the nature of laws and the reasons we might expect to find them in history * employs an underlying framework concerning societal dynamics, historical change, and institutional change, which are in fact the laws of... Read more
List of illustrations, Preface, 1 The eternal and the ephemeral, PART I The law-seekers, PART II The laws, Notes, Glossary of new terms and concepts, References, Index

Biography

Graeme Snooks