Y = Arctg X : the hyperbola of the world order / Max Ostrovsky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ostrovsky, Max.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International organization.

State, The.

Agriculture and state.

Political science.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 395 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, [2007]

Summary:

Combining history, archaeology, sociology, political science, and agricultural studies, Y=Arctg X: The Hyperbola of the World Order presents a theory claiming that any political system with a firm agricultural foundation is pre-destined to reach political unity and turn this state into the norm. Using the circumscription theory-the idea that the phenomenon of political unification was most explicit in areas of the world where agricultural land was in short supply-and exhaustive historical evidence, this timely work proposes the emergence of a single world state.

Contents:

Part I Phenomena 1

1 Egypt and Mesopotamia 3

2 China and the Mediterranean 21

3 Circumscription 35

Egypt and Mesopotamia 35

China and the Mediterranean 38

4 Cereal Agriculture 54

Warfare as the Mechanism of Unification 55

Agriculture as the Source of Warfare 60

The Foundation of Empire 73

5 The Imperial Belt 93

Part III Implications for the Modern System 109

6 The Formation 111

The Imperial Belt 111

Circumscription 126

The End of the Balance of Power 140

7 The Present Stage 176

The Gravitation of the Pole 176

The Cocooned States 199

Hegemony 220

8 The Next Stage 240

Defensive Imperiaiism 240

Rome 240

Ch'in 252

The United States 265

Imperialization and Modern Circumstances 294

The Pattern of Imperialization 314

9 Forward to the Future 339.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-393).

ISBN:

0761834990

9780761834991

OCLC:

81144918