Modernities: a geohistorical interpretation

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A thoroughly readable, far-reaching analysis of "modernity" and "the modern," this book focuses on the specific periods and places where ideas and practices of being modern are created and challenged. Peter J. Taylor contends that modernity is a multiple phenomenon: that is, different modern times and different modern spaces exist in a world of multiple modernities. In a masterly analysis of politics and the state in terms of the modern, Taylor shows how each political organization of a particu…

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Full title :Modernities : a geohistorical interpretation / Peter J. Taylor.

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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:1 online resource (x, 158 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780816690527, 0816690529, 0816652953, 9780816652952, 9780816633951, 0816633959, 9780745668741, 0745668747
oclc:ocn191930609
LC Classification:CB430
Dewey Decimal:909.82

Preface; Prologue: Being Geohistorical; Who's modern?; Whose modern?; 1 Modern, -ity, -ism, -ization; 2 Prime Modernities; 3 Ordinary Modernity; 4 Modern States; 5 Political Movements; 6 Geographical Tensions; 7 Americanization; Epilogue: Presents and Ends; References; Index.

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Civilisation -- 1950- Civilization, Modern Civilization, Modern -- 1950- Histoire -- 1945- Histoire -- 1945-1989 Histoire -- 1989- HISTORY -- Modern History, Modern -- 1945-1989 History, Modern -- 1989- Since 1945