Project
Linear vs. Polarizing Trends in World Social Processes
Over the past two centuries, the dominant view in social science has been that the modern world shows a pattern of linear development in which all positive trends go upward in more or less linear fashion (albeit perhaps at an uncertain speed), and that therefore over time discrepancies between the leaders and the laggards are overcome, toward a relatively homogenized world.
Project
Race Changes: Shifting Identities in World History
Race Changes is a book about people whose seemingly permanent racial or ethnic identities in fact change over the course of their lifetimes.
Publication
Sovereign Force and Crime-focused Law at the Cape Colony
George Pavlich. 2013. Sovereign Force and Crime-focused Law at the Cape Colony. Journal of Historical Sociology, 26 (3), 318–338
