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Modernities : a geohistorical interpretation /
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, diff...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
1999.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 particular modernity creates an appropriate political reaction |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 158 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-144) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780816690527 0816690529 0816652953 9780816652952 9780816633951 0816633959 9780745668741 0745668747 |