Social Evolution & History. Volume 15, Number 1

Claessen, Henri J. M., The Emergence of Pristine States
In this article the emergence of the Pristine State will be considered. First, I will present an overview of the applied method. Then seven cases of – probable – Pristine States are described. This makes a comparative research possible. As the case studies have been described with the help of....

Grinin, Leonid; Ilyin, Ilya V.; Andreev, A., World Order in the Past, Present, and Future
The present article analyzes the world order in the past, present and future as well as the main factors, foundations and ideas underlying the maintaining and change of the international and global order. The first two sections investigate the evolution of the world order starting from the....

Horta, G., Spiritism, Violence, and Social Struggle in Late Nineteenth-Century Catalonia
This article discusses different situations concerning the positioning of the nineteenth-century Catalan spiritism towards violence: on the one hand, with regard to capitalist's society's implementation of the industrial process; on the other, in relation to the political use of....

Khokholkova, N., Afrocentricity: The Evolution of the Theory in the Context of American History
The African Americans or Black Americans continue to be one of the largest minorities in the USA. The descendants of the African slaves they encountered discrimination, came through racial segregation (1865–1955) and fierce fighting for civil rights (1954–1968). Different social conceptions....

Skarzynski, R.; Wajzer, M.; Staniucha, T., Mind and Vision: Social Evolution and the Origins of the Political
During the transition from family to state organizations, that is from structures built upon the cooperation of a few relatives to organizations controlling the behaviour of thousands and millions of genetically distant individuals, the unification of people around ideas processed by the mind....

Lyubichankovskiy, S.; Dzhundzhuzov, S.; Barabash, N.; Shuvalov, S. S., The Settlement of a Region as a Historical Phenomenon: The Middle Volga and Transvolga Regions in the Development of the Russian Civilization and Nation
A review of Kabytov, P. S., Dubman E. L., and Leontieva, O. B. (Eds.) ‘Finding Homeland’: Society and Power in the Middle Volga Region (from the Second Half of the 16th to Early 20th Centuries). Vol. 2. Regional Settlement and Ethnic and Demographic Situation. Samara: Samara University, 2014.....

Weiyang, X., Success of the International Symposium on ‘Theories and Methods for Studies of the Origin of States’
On November 14–15, 2015, the international symposium on ‘Theories and Methods for Studies of the Origin of States’ was held in Gucun Park Hotel, Shanghai. The symposium was co-organized by Research Center on Ancient Civilizations and History Department of Shanghai University, assisted by....