Past Impersonal: Group Process in Human History

By Rudolph Binion

In this groundbreaking study, renowned historian Rudolph Binion develops a whole new of understanding human history. Exploring the collective dimension of human behavior in various historic contexts, he argues that people participate in purposeful group actions while pursuing only their own individual ends as far as they know. The basic moving force in history thus illegible] neither individual motives, nor abstract tendencies such as modernization or globalization, but group process operating in concealment. Through several complementary historic case studies ranging over two millenniums, Binion demonstrates how individuals pursue group purposes, or hidden group agendas, unawares.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0875803458
• ISBN13: 9780875803456
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher