The major mid-life papers of the distinguished Canadian- American social scientist, combining the fields of sociology, anthropology, economics and history. Dr. Davis is known throughout Canada as a radical and iconoclastic analyst and interpreter of social history on a global scale. Sharp of style, unsparing of static contentment, these essays range across cultures and ages, always returning to the present time and the solutions, if any, of the massive socio-cultural problems of the waning 20th century. In the line of the great social analysts, Hegel, Marx, Veblen, Toynbee, Whitehead, Sorokin, and Mao Tse-tung, the process dialectic presented here broods from the high plains of Canada, in an emergent and unpredictable mixture of despair and stubborn hope.

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