| Description |
1 online resource (x, 158 pages) |
| 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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-144) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Civilization, Modern -- 1950-
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History, Modern -- 1945-1989.
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History, Modern -- 1989-
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HISTORY -- Modern.
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Civilization, Modern
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History, Modern
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
98045120 |
| ISBN |
9780816690527 |
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0816690529 |
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0816652953 |
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9780816652952 |
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9780816633951 |
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0816633959 |
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9780745668741 |
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0745668747 |
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