Marx offers a more global account which stresses connections between changes in one society and changes in others.
Marx is much more concerned with the mechanics of social change, especially in the case of the transition from feudalism to capitalism. Change is viewed in essentially dialectical terms.
The Marx model is used in classic studies such as E. P. Thompson's famous Making of the Working Class (1963), as in Maurice Agulhon's The Republic in the Village (1970), a study of eastern Provence in the first half of the nineteenth century, or Emilio Sereni's Capitalism in the Countryside (1947), which deals with Italy in the generation after its unification in 1860.
