Historical Sociology and World History: Uneven and Combined Development over the Longue Durée, 1st Edition

The concept of ‘uneven and combined development’ was originally coined by Leon Trotsky to theorise Tsarist Russia’s distinctive experience of modernity and revolution. But it has re-emerged over the last decade or so as a burgeoning research programme within International Relations (IR) and historical sociology. It has been critically and creatively deployed in two main areas: the provision of a sociological foundation to international theory overcoming the chronic schism between ‘sociological’ and ‘geopolitical’ modes of enquiry; and, relatedly, in superseding prevailing Eurocentric approaches in the social sciences. This volume is the first to provide a sustained reflection on the idea of uneven and combined development as the intellectual basis for a non-Eurocentric social theory of ‘the international’. It does so through a series of empirically rich and theoretically informed analyses of socio-historical change, political transformation, and intersocietal conflict over the longue durée. The volume thereby aims to demonstrate the unique potentials of uneven and combined development in overcoming IR and historical sociology’s shared inability to theorize the interactive and multilinear character of development.Historical Sociology and World History: Uneven and Combined Development over the Longue Durée 1st Edition is written by Alexander Anievas and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ISBNs for Historical Sociology and World History are 9781783486830, 178348683X and the print ISBNs are 9781783486823, 1783486821. Additional ISBNs include 9781783486816.