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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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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
1999.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.