48.1 - Long-Term Processes in Human History

Special Issue– Long-Term Processes in Human History. (Johan Heilbron & Nico Wilterdink)

• Johan Heilbron & Nico Wilterdink: Studying Long-Term Processes in Human History. [Introduction]

Contributions

• Stephen Mennell: Remembering Johan Goudsblom.
• Johan Goudsblom: Long-Term Processes in the History of Humanity.
• David Christian: The Trajectory of Human History.
• Nico Wilterdink: Goudsblom’s Law of Three Stages: The Global Spread of Socio-Cultural Traits in Human History.
• Nina Baur: Long-Term Processes as Obstacles Against the Fourth Ecological Transformation. Ecological Sustainability and the Spatial Arrangements of Food Markets.
• John R. McNeill: Bison, Elephants, and Sperm Whales: Keystone Species in the Industrial Revolution.
• Marina Fischer-Kowalski: On the Mutual Historical Dynamics of Societies’ Political Governance Systems and their Sources of Energy. The Approach of the Vienna School of Social Ecology.
• André Saramago: Dualism and Anti-Dualism in the Anthropocene: Process Sociology and Human/Nature Relations in the Great Evolution.
• Abram de Swaan: The Global Coordination Problem: Collective Action among Unequal States.
• Randall Collins: Sexual Revolutions and the Future of the Family.
• Johan Goudsblom: The Worm and the Clock: On the Genesis of a Global Time Regime.