Theories of history

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Theories_of_history

This is for works that don't just document history, but provide theories for why things happened the way they did (and possibly what that means for the future).

Subcategories

This category has the following 9 subcategories, out of 9 total.

A ► American exceptionalism‎ (2 P) ► Apocalypticism‎ (14 C, 75 P) E ► Eurasianism‎ (14 P)

G ► Globalization-related theories‎ (11 P) H ► Historical revisionism‎ (3 C, 20 P) O ► Orientalism‎ (16 C, 25 P)

P ► Post-medieval constructs about the Middle Ages‎ (1 C, 9 P) S ► Sociocultural evolution‎ (4 C, 103 P) T ► Theorists on Western civilization‎ (21 P)

Pages in category "Theories of history"

The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 215 total. This list may not reflect recent changes (learn more).
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A Accelerating change Afrocentrism American exceptionalism Analytical Marxism Annales School George Antonius Apocalypticism Archaic globalization Astrology The Automated Society B Big History Big History Project Marc Bloch Bonapartism (epithet) Borussian myth Fernand Braudel Budapest School (Lukács) C Capitalist mode of production Carneiro's circumscription theory Catastrophism Chinese calendar and history Chronocentrism Civilization Cliodynamics Cliometrics The Coal Question Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed The Communist Manifesto Complex society Auguste Comte Conceptual history Conflict theory Consumer revolution Cosmos and Psyche Counterfactual history Creative destruction Critical Path (book) Critical reconstruction Cultural ecology Cultural evolutionism Cultural globalization Cultural history Cultural materialism (anthropology) Cyclic history D Dark Ages (historiography) Deglobalization Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention Democratic peace theory Democratic Rationalization Denying History Derbyite theory of Shakespeare authorship Dialectical materialism Dispensationalism Doomsday argument Dynastic cycle E The Eastern Origins of Western Civilisation Economic determinism Empire and Communications The End of History and the Last Man Friedrich Engels Environmental Revolution An Essay on the Principle of Population Eurasianism Eurocentrism The European Miracle Exceptionalism F Frankfurt School

F cont. Functionalism versus intentionalism G Ernest Gellner Gender history Global citizens movement Globalization Globalization and disease Great Divergence Great Man theory Guns, Germs, and Steel H Hamiltonian spite Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Hegelianism Heroic theory of invention and scientific development Historic recurrence Historical determinism Historical materialism Historical realism Historical revisionism Historical revisionism (negationism) Historicism Historiometry Historism History of mentalities The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire History wars Hydraulic empire Hyperbolic growth I Ibn Khaldun Idea of Progress Imagined communities Industrial Revolution Industrial society Industrious Revolution Information revolution Information society Institute for Social Research Instrumental conception of technology Invented traditions Is the Holocaust Unique? J Juglar cycle K Paul Kennedy Killer application Kin selection Kitchin cycle David Kolb Kondratiev wave Nikolay Kradin Kuznets swing L Law of Social Cycle Law of the handicap of a head start Henri Lefebvre Leninism Gerhard Lenski Long-cycles Longue durée M Makhnovism Malthusian trap Mandate of Heaven Marx's theory of alienation Marxism Umberto Meoli Microhistory Millennialism Mode of production Modernization Multilineal evolution List of multiple discoveries

M cont. Multiple discovery The Myth of the Machine N Neo-völkisch movements Neoevolutionism Neolithic Revolution New Mormon history Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny North Atlantic triangle Nouvelle histoire O O'Rahilly's historical model Oriental despotism The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State Orthodox Marxism P Paradigm shift Parametric determinism Path dependence Peterhouse school of history Phantom time hypothesis Philosophy of history Planetary phase of civilization Political collapse of the United States (hypothetical) Popular history Positive feedback Post-industrial society Predictions made by Ray Kurzweil Primitive communism Progress (history) Progress trap Progressive revelation (Bahá'í) The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism Proto-globalization Psychohistory Q Qing conquest theory Quantitative history Carroll Quigley R Revisionism (Marxism) Rostow's stages of growth S Seeds of Change: Five Plants That Transformed Mankind Self-referencing doomsday argument rebuttal A Short History of Progress Sixty Years' War Smihula waves Social cycle theory Social Darwinism Social progress Social savings Societal collapse Sociocultural evolution Sonderweg Pitirim Sorokin Spengler's civilization model Stab-in-the-back myth Staples thesis Superintelligence Systems theory T Technological determinism Technological singularity Technology and society Tetrabiblos Theory of historical trajectory Thesis, antithesis, synthesis Third Period Three Eras Arnold J. Toynbee Traditional society Triadization

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