The Third World Century

This book theorizes that the basic civilizational pillars of family, community, tradition and faith are severely eroding in the industrial/technological West. This has caused Western civilization itself to enter a period of fragmentation and decline. In The Third World Century, Charles Goodwin assesses the present aspect and ambiance of western civilization with an eye to its prospects. The author also evaluates those civilizational forces emerging on the periphery as the weakening of the West's fundamental societal pillars allows them to gather momentum from their bases in the Third World. Contents: Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; THE POST WORLD WAR II ORDER CRUMBLES; Disintegration of The Second World; Russia: Past and Prognosis; The New Chinese Empire: A Peoples Republic Colossus; The First World Flounders; Technology: Monster or Messiah?; A Bankruptcy of Precepts; The Future of the Republican Ideal; THE TEMPORARY RISE OF SPHERISM; Atrophy of Internationalism: Growth of Super Spheres; Spherical Tensions; New Combinations and Configurations; INSIDE THE THIRD WORLD ORDER; Quadruple Basics; Fundamental Values and Structures; TESSERAE OF THE EMERGING MOSAIC; The Evolution of Socio-Politics; Post Technological Polity.

About the author

Charles Stewart Goodwin lectures at local museums.

Summary

Argues that family, community, tradition and faith are eroding in the industrial/technological West, resulting in a period of fragmentation and decline for western civilisation. This book evaluates the impact of this decline on Third World civilisations.

Product details

• Authors: Charles Stewart Goodwin
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.06.1994
• EAN: 9780819195340
• ISBN: 978-0-8191-9534-0
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 220 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 363 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / General, HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Society & culture: general, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, Developing Countries, General & world history, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, General and world history, Society and culture: general, Development Studies, Global South / Developing countries