Reviews for Law, Government and People

The average rating for Law, Government and People based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-02-19 00:00:00 Calvin Dobbins This book is not a real success. It tries to bring an own contribution to the field of Global History, but I wasn't convinced by it. See my more elaborate review in my Sense-of-History account:

Review # 2 was written on 2013-06-16 00:00:00 Pete Villegas That there is a globalization trend in history, is an open door. To try to recognize patterns in that evolution is creditable, but risky. Noel Cowen does such an attempt in this book. He has created an eclectic vision, building on the work of Toynbee, Braudel, McNeill and Wallerstein. But just as those big names he keeps to a compelling theoretical frame. He sees parallel evolutions at work everywhere, and thus he ignores the complexity and uniqueness of human societies and the contingency of history. Eventually his effort does not deliver new insights. I find the attempt by David Christian in "Maps of Time", although also a bit controversial, much more creditable