The Ephemeral Civilization: Exploding the Myth of Social Evolution

The Ephemeral Civilizationis an astonishing intellectual feat in which Graeme Snooks develops an original and ground-breaking analysis of changing sociopolitical forms over the past 3,000 years. Snooks challenges the prevailing theories of social evolutionism with an innovative approach which also looks ahead to the twenty-first century. The book builds on the model of dynamic strategy outlined in the author's highly acclaimed companion volume,The Dynamic Society. Divided into three parts, the book provides a new theory based on extensive historical study, focusing on three types of civilization--conquest, commerce, and technological--and outlines probable future changes.