This collection of essays discusses the first commercial encounters between a China on the verge of social transformation and a fledgling United States struggling to assert itself globally as a distinct nation after the Revolutionary War with Great Britain.
Nine essays discuss the first commercial encounters between a China on the verge of systemic social change and a United States struggling to assert itself globally as a distinct nation after the Revolutionary War, from the arrival in Canton of the first American ship in the 1870…
This collection of essays discusses the first commercial encounters between a China on the verge of social transformation and a fledgling United States struggling to assert itself globally as a distinct nation after the Revolutionary War with Great Britain.
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface -- Part I Introduction -- 1 Marginalizing Eurocentrism: Critics and Encounters in the Contemporary Social Structures -- Part II From History to Society -- 2 The Constitution of Eurocen…
Eurocentrism remains a prevailing feature of Western-dominated social scientific perspectives, tending to ignore alternative views originating outside the West and thus maintaining a form of scholarly hegemony. As such, there is an urgent need to reconsider Eurocentrism in socia…
Introduction / Nilüfer Göle -- Public space democracy, assembly and creativity / Nilüfer Göle -- What theory for the new protest movements? / Boyan Znepolski -- Embedding the prefigurations of Gezi protests : the rhizomatic spread of new subjectivities and politicized identities…
"This volume takes a global view of the emergence of public protest movements over the last decade, asking whether such movements contribute to the globalization of civil society. Through a variety of studies, organised around the themes of public agency, public norms, public me…
"This volume takes a global view of the emergence of public protest movements over the last decade, asking whether such movements contribute to the globalization of civil society. Through a variety of studies, organised around the themes of public agency, public norms, public me…
Islam, Christianity, and Judaism share several common features, including their historical origins in the prophet Abraham, their belief in a single divine being, and their modern global expanse. Yet it is the seeming closeness of these 'Abrahamic' religions that draws attention …
