"Employing a novel combination of theoretical insights into International Relations and Historical Sociology, this book investigates the nature of modern social change in Iran. Recasting Iranian Modernity presents the argument that there is a previously neglected international d…
Transnational history at its finest, Doctors of Empire not only illuminates the German origins of modern medical science in Japan but also reinterprets the nature of German imperialism in East Asia."--Pub. desc
An overview of the trajectory of European societies, East and West, since the end of World War II. This text addresses the questions that underpin an understanding of the nature of European modernity: to what extent has the period 1945-2000 produced change and what are the areas…
In this book one of Europe's foremost sociologists offers a profound and accessible overview of the trajectory of European societies, East and West, since the end of World War II. Combining theoretical depth with factual analysis, G ran Therborn addresses the questions that unde…
In this book Göran Therborn addresses the questions that underpin an understanding of the nature of European modernity, including: To what extent is the period 1945-2000 producing fundamental change and what are the areas of continuity? Have the societies of Europe become more s…
"Middle-class Hindus have worked to modernize Kālīghāṭ - the most famous Hindu temple in Kolkata - over the past long century. Rather than being rejected with the onslaught of European modernity, the temple became a facet through which Hindus could produce and publicize their mo…
In einer Welt, in der eine Krise nach der nächsten verkündet wird, verlockt das Denken des Sozialphilosophen Ivan Illich zu einer Suche nach Auswegen. Doch lässt sich das Denken des scharfen Kritikers der Modernisierung und Verfechters konvivialer Technologien für die Errichtung…
In einer Welt, in der eine Krise nach der nächsten verkündet wird, verlockt das Denken des Sozialphilosophen Ivan Illich zu einer Suche nach Auswegen. Doch lässt sich das Denken des scharfen Kritikers der Modernisierung und Verfechters konvivialer Technologien für die Errichtung…
The modernist-apologetic approach to the relation between revelation and science and politics has been a central part of Arab discourses on the future of Muslim societies for over a century. This approach introduced historical and theological narratives and interpretative mechan…