Dynamics of Continuity, Patterns of Change

Between World History and Comparative Historical Sociology: In memory of Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt

edited by Benjamin Z. Kedar, Ilana Friedrich Silber and Adam Klin-Oron

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Extent: 300 pages

Publisher: The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities

Subjects: Social Sciences 

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(September 2017)

ISBN: 9789652082244

5.87 x 9.41 inches

Price: $55.00

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Preface Benjamin Z. Kedar - On Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt: Opening Remarks Irit Meir - On a Personal Note - My Father Bjorn Wittrock - A Contemporary Classic: Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt's Research Program and Its Contexts Wolfgang Knobl - Confronting World/Global History with Eisenstadt's Civilizational Analysis: Promises and Problems Benjamin Z. Kedar - Cultural Persistence Despite Total Political Collapse: The Role of Elites Yuri Pines - Post-imperial Emperors? Traditional Chinese Political Culture and Its Afterlife Elisabeth S. Clemens - Dynamics of Nation-Building: Benevolence and Liberalism in American Political Development Luis Roniger - Multiple Modernities, World History and the Global Rise of Human Rights Gabriel Motzkin - The Problem of Scale in Comparative History Yuval Noah Harari - Does History Have a Direction? S.N. Eisenstadt: List of Publications (compiled by B.Z. Kedar)

  • Edited by Benjamin Z. Kedar
  • Edited by Adam Klin-Oron
  • Edited by Ilana Friedrich Silber