Globality and Multiple Modernities
Comparative North American & Latin American Perspectives
Will be published approx. on 1. January 2002
Book
Hardback
325 pages
978-1-84519-212-9 (ISBN)
Description
This book analyzes the Americas, North and South, in the global and comparative arena, showing how these societies gazed each other and Europe as they followed the road to multiple forms of modernity and globalization. New insights are contributed on the ways in which reflected conceptions of modernity, with utopian overtones, influenced the ways in which politicians and intellectuals viewed their own societies, other societies in the New World, and the older nations of Europe.
Reviews / Votes
"Well worth reading for its coherence, the quality of chapters that use rich historical detail and the scope of its empirical roots." -- Contemporary Sociology.More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Liverpool
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 155 mm
Width: 230 mm
Weight
646 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84519-212-9 (9781845192129)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Luis Roniger is Reynolds Professor of Latin American Studies at Wake Forest University. A comparative political sociologist, his work focuses on the interface between politics, society and public culture. Carlos H Waisman is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of a large number of articles and books and book chapters.
Content
Contents: Approaching Multiple Modernities in the Americas; The First Multiple Modernities: Collective Identity, Public Spheres and Political Order in the Americas; Latin America as a Mausoleum of Modernities; Fragment of Europe or Historical Innovation? The Emergence of Modernity in the United States after Independence; Global Immersion: Latin America and its Multiple Modernities; The Multiple Modernities Argument and Societies in the Americas; Constitutional Development in the United States and Argentina; Constitutional Perspectives on Modernity: The Canadian Experience; The Generation of Public Spheres in Brazil: The Role of Abolitionism ; The Meaning of Territory: Colonial Standards and Modern Questions in Ecuador; Globalisation and Limited Democracy through the Mirror of History in Chile; Modernity and Canadian Civilisation: The Ideas of Harold A. Innis; The Counter-Hegemonic Discourse of Brazilian and Argentinean Intellectuals, 1920--1940; Collective Identities and Citizenship in Quebec; Modes of Citizenship in Mexico; Latin American Migrant Writers: Nomadic, Decentred, Contrapuntal'; Index.