Modernities: a geohistorical interpretation
by Taylor, Peter J., (Peter James)
Title Statements
- Full title :Modernities : a geohistorical interpretation / Peter J. Taylor.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:1999.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):University of Minnesota Press
- Place of Publication:Minneapolis
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1999.
The Physical Object
- Description:x, 158 pages ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0816633959, 9780816633951, 0816633967, 9780816633968
- oclc:ocm39936729
- LC Classification:CB430
- Dewey Decimal:909.82
Table of Contents
Prologue: being geohistorical. Who's modern? Whose modern? -- Modern, -ity, -ism, -ization. Ambiguous to the core -- Social theory with smoke in its eyes -- Multiple moderns versus multiple modernities -- Modernizations of modernities -- Prime modernities. World hegemony as uneven social change -- Three prime modernities -- Two modernizations of modernities -- Consensus and coercion in the projection of hegemonic power -- Ordinary modernity. Cultural celebrations of ordinariness -- Feeling comfortable: the modern house -- Suburbia: the domestic landscape of consumer modernity -- Not modernism -- Modern states. Inter-stateness -- Absolutism as a political way of life -- Going Dutch -- The changing nature of territoriality -- Political movements. Parties and movements -- Movements and modernities -- Socialism against the modernity the Britain created -- Environmentalism against the modernity that America created -- Geographical tensions. Where and what? -- Place-space tensions -- Nation-state as enabling place and dis-enabling space -- Home-household as enabling place and dis-enabling space -- Americanization. Incipient, capacious and resonant Americanizations -- Inside America: con…
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