Introduction: Comparative Sociology and the Sociological Imagination.- The Theory and Practice of Comparative Sociology.- The Making of the Modern World: The Historical Sociology of Barrington Moore.- The Proliferation of Capitalism: Organised Capitalism, Disorganised Capitalism and Beyond Modern Capitalism and the State: The Contradictions of State Welfare and Corporatism.- The Rise and Transcendence of State Socialism: Stalinism, De-Stalinization and Beyond.- The Rise and Fall of the Third World: Development, Disillusion and Divergence From Three Worlds to Globalisation: Economic Restructuring, Democratisation and Cultural Change in a Global Context.- Comparative Sociology and Theories of Social Change: Progress, Unpredictability and Visions of the Future.- References.- Index.