World Order in History by Paul Dukes (9780415129367)

Description - World Order in History by Paul Dukes

This study seeks to demonstrate how a series of successive historians and analysts have attempted 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 evolution of these interpretations, and to recognize that they are limited by the constraints of the age in which their authors lived. These arguments are pursued with particular reference to Russia and the Western world from the early modern period right up to the present. The author draws on conclusions on the state of the debate in the 1990s, and offers some views as to the way forward for historians of Russia and the wider world. This is aimed at all those concerned with the study of history, in particular the philosophy of history and Russian history.

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