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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Taylor, Peter J. (Peter James), 1944-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1999.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.