Theories of history

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World War III, also known as the Third World War, is a hypothetical future global conflict subsequent to World War I (1914–1918) and World War II (1939–1945). It is widely predicted that such a war would involve all of the great powers, like its two predecessors, and the use of nuclear weapons or other weapons of mass destruction, thereby surpassing all prior conflicts in scale, devastation, and loss of life.

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hypothetical climatic effect of nuclear war

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biological concepts of natural selection & survival fitness re-imagined socio-politically

doctrine of military strategy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender

political and religious doctrine of the Emperor of China

Czech anthropologist, philosopher and sociologist

Historicism is an approach in the study of phenomena, particularly social and cultural practices, including ideas and beliefs, which emphasizes understanding these phenomena through the historical processes by which they developed. The concept is widely applied in fields such as philosophy, anthropology, and sociology.

thumb|Thomas Robert Malthus, after whom Malthusianism is named Malthusianism is a theory that population growth is potentially exponential, according to the Malthusian growth model, while the growth of the food supply or other resources is linear, which eventually reduces living standards to the point of triggering a population decline. This event, called a Malthusian catastrophe (also known as a Malthusian trap, population trap, Malthusian check, Malthusian snatch, Malthusian crisis, point of crisis, or Malthusian crunch) has been predicted to occur if population growth outpaces agricultural

field of historical study. Not to be confused with universal history (genre)

multidisciplinary, macro-scale approach to world history and social change that stresses that the world-system should be the primary unit of social analysis

perspectives in sociology and social psychology that emphasize a materialist interpretation of history, dialectical method of analysis, a critical stance toward existing social arrangements, and political program of revolution or, at least, reform

speculative historical theories

Psychohistory is a transdisciplinary field of knowledge that represents an amalgam of psychology, history, psychoanalysis, political psychology, anthropology, ethnology, and related social sciences, art, and humanities. Psychohistorians examine the "why's" of history, utilizing the bottom-up approach rather than starting with psychological theories. They combine the insights of psychodynamic psychology, especially psychoanalysis, with the research methodology of the social sciences and humanities, to understand the emotional origin of the behavior of individuals, groups and nations, past and p

fall or disintegration of complex human societies, involving causative factors such as natural disasters, environmental change, depletion of resources, unsustainable complexity, decay of social cohesion, rising inequality, and loss of creativity

theory that history is shaped primarily by extraordinary individuals

a period in European history during which a very swift and radical socioeconomic shift occurs

study of historical events that never happened

concept in history

Historiographical school of thought

social or government structure which maintains power and control through exclusive control over access to water

political and philosophical concept

future vision

Ideology that Austria was an involuntary victim of Nazism

philosophical view that events are entirely determined by history

sociological theory that views events and stages of society and history in repeating cycles

theory of the role of warfare in state formation in political anthropology

whole-planet community

hypothesis about scientific discoveries and inventions

theoretical composite race which will result from ongoing racial admixture

fringe theory annihilating Korean's national spirit regarding a common ancestry between them and Japanese people, justifying at the same time the colonial invasion and annexation of Joseon-dynastic Korea by Empire of Japan

theory of Japanese history