{"id":18278,"date":"2009-12-30T10:16:09","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T15:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=18278"},"modified":"2014-01-20T01:48:46","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T06:48:46","slug":"world-history-and-the-diffusion-and-disappearance-of-political-economies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/12\/30\/world-history-and-the-diffusion-and-disappearance-of-political-economies\/","title":{"rendered":"World History and the Diffusion and Disappearance of Political-Economies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/missivesfrommarx.wordpress.com\" target=\"_blank\">Missives from Marx<\/a> sent in a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mapsofwar.com\/ind\/march-of-democracy.html\" target=\"_blank\">this animated time line<\/a> documenting the diffusion of various political-economic systems (e.g., fascism, democracy, and feudalism) over world history.\u00a0 It can be read as a story about the triumph of democracy, but it&#8217;s also illustrates how political-economic systems are not natural, but invented during particular historical eras, and diffuse or disappear as a consequence of war, geography, and other geopolitical factors.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"600\" height=\"300\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.mapsofwar.com\/images\/Democracy.swf\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Missives from Marx sent in a link to this animated time line documenting the diffusion of various political-economic systems (e.g., fascism, democracy, and feudalism) over world history.\u00a0 It can be read as a story about the triumph of democracy, but it&#8217;s also illustrates how political-economic systems are not natural, but invented during particular historical eras, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,1826,64,253,85,309],"class_list":["post-18278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-economics","tag-geographymaps","tag-globalization","tag-history","tag-politics","tag-warmilitary"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18278"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61031,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18278\/revisions\/61031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}