Global economic and cultural transformation : the making of world history

Mohamed Rabie re-examines the relevance of major ideas and systems of the recent past, including ideology and its relation to society, in Global Economic and Societal Transformation. Society today faces multi-dimensional challenges that are hard to define and even harder to deal with. Social and economic systems throughout the world are becoming more complex and interdependent, and globalization is moving beyond the sphere of economics to engulf other aspects of life, particularly culture and security. Our current theories, strategies, and road maps are fast becoming out-dated and no new ones have emerged to take their place. Mohamed Rabie re-examines the relevance of major ideas and systems of the recent past, including ideology and its relation to society in Global Economic and Cultural Transformation. This book is an attempt defines and explains this transitional period and provides a new conception of economic and societal world history, which us understand how we got here and where we are going Front Matter....Pages i-x A View of History....Pages 1-19 Stages of Societal Development....Pages 21-42 Processes of Societal Transformation....Pages 43-57 Social Transformation....Pages 59-77 Agents of Historical Change....Pages 79-92 Theories of World History....Pages 93-106 The Train of Time....Pages 107-125 Ideology and History....Pages 127-153 Cultural Determinism....Pages 155-174 A World in Transition....Pages 175-194 Concluding Remarks....Pages 195-198 Back Matter....Pages 199-217