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Europe and the Americas : state formation, capitalism and civilizations in Atlantic modernity /

This volume takes up current debates in comparative and historical sociology that deal with multiple modernities and civilizations. It does so through an examination of patterns of state formation, civilization and the development of capitalism in the interaction of European and American worlds over...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Smith, Jeremy, 1966-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.
Colección:International comparative social studies ; v. 12.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Atlantic modernity and its dimensions
  • Civilizational sociology and the Atlantic
  • Absolutism and post-absolutism in Europe's empires
  • Civilization and pre-colonial traditions
  • 'Discovery' in the west
  • Mercantilism, slavery and the part played by the transatlantic empires in the formation of capitalism
  • Communities of the colonial order
  • War and imperial re-division between Utrecht and the seven years war
  • 'Raising the decibels': republican revolutions of the colonial order
  • The Atlantic's distinct modernity.