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Author Smith, Jeremy, 1966-

Title Europe and the Americas : state formation, capitalism and civilizations in Atlantic modernity / by Jeremy Smith ; with an introduction by S.N. Eisenstadt
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 340 pages)
Series International comparative social studies, 1568-4474 ; v. 12
International comparative social studies ; v. 12. 1568-4474
Contents 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
Summary 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 three centuries. The early part of the argument explores cutting-edge theoretical debates around the nature of early modern formations
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-332) and index
Notes English
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Subject State, The -- History
HISTORY.
Civilization
State, The
SUBJECT Europe -- Civilization. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045637
Europe -- Colonies -- America
Europe -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045687
Subject America
Europe
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
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