Theories of history are theories for why things happened the way they did (and possibly what that means for the future).
Subcategories
This category has the following 14 subcategories, out of 14 total.
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- American exceptionalism (11 P)
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- Business cycle theories (25 P)
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- Historical materialism (17 P)
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Pages in category "Theories of history"
The following 182 pages are in this category, out of 182 total. This list may not reflect recent changes (learn more).
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- Cambridge School (intellectual history)
- Capitalist mode of production (Marxist theory)
- Capitalist peace
- Circumscription theory
- Civilization
- Classical Marxism
- Cliodynamics
- Cliometrics
- Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
- Auguste Comte
- Conceptual history
- Conflict theories
- Counterfactual history
- Creative destruction
- Critical Path (book)
- Cultural ecology
- Cultural globalization
- Cultural history
- Cultural materialism (anthropology)
- Cybernetic Culture Research Unit
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- Hamiltonian spite
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Hegelianism
- Heroic theory of invention and scientific development
- Historic recurrence
- Historical anthropology
- Historical determinism
- Historical materialism
- Historical realism
- Historicism
- Historiometry
- Historism
- History of mentalities
- History of modernisation theory
- The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- History wars
- Hydraulic empire
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- Paradigm shift
- Parametric determinism
- Path dependence
- Peterhouse school of history
- Planetary phase of civilization
- Political midlife crisis
- Post-industrial society
- Pre-Columbian transoceanic contact theories
- Primitive communism
- Progress
- Progress trap
- The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
- Proto-globalization
- Psychobiography
- Psychohistory
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- Seeds of Change (book)
- Self-referencing doomsday argument rebuttal
- Seshat (project)
- A Short History of Progress
- Smihula waves
- Social cycle theory
- Social Darwinism
- Social savings
- Societal collapse
- Sonderweg
- Pitirim Sorokin
- Oswald Spengler
- Staples thesis
- Stranger King
- Strauss–Howe generational theory
- Structural-demographic theory