European modernity : a global approach
Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- 1 Introduction: Europe - Modernity - European Modernity -- The historico-sociological notion of European modernity -- The European nineteenth century -- Rethinking the historico-sociological notion...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Langue: | English |
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London Oxford New York New Delhi Sydney : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,
2017
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| Titres liés à la collection: | Europe's legacy in the modern world
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| Sujets: | Social change History, Modern Civilization, Modern Europe Electronic books Europa Geschichte 1800-2016 |
| Description matérielle: | 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 248 Seiten) |
| Résumé: | Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- 1 Introduction: Europe - Modernity - European Modernity -- The historico-sociological notion of European modernity -- The European nineteenth century -- Rethinking the historico-sociological notion of European modernity -- The historico-philosophical notion of European modernity -- Contextualizing the historico-philosophical notion of modernity -- Conceptuality and historicity -- Modernity in history -- The agenda: modernity in Europe -- PART ONE Europe in Time and Space -- 2 An Origin and Goal of European History? The Long-term Perspective -- Origins and goals -- The Axial Age hypothesis -- The Axial Age debate: a European twentieth-century quest -- The central questions of the Axial Age debate -- Questions we need neither ask nor answer -- Axiality and civilizational patterns -- Axiality and Europe -- Axiality and modernity -- 3 What is Europe? -- Beyond the myth of origins -- The impossible definition of Europe: unification and division -- Europe in the colonial mirror -- Europe in the American mirror -- Europe in the Asian and African mirrors -- The Cold War: the European division and unification -- The economic and the social in European unification after 1990 -- Europe as a value community -- PART TWO European Interpretations of Modernity -- 4 Europe's Hesitations with Democracy -- European democracy: evolution or discontinuity? -- From rejection to reluctant acceptance: democracy in Europe, 1789 to the 1960s -- Transformations of democracy up to the 1960s: three key tensions -- 5 The Market-industrial Revolution in Global Perspective: Colonial Heritage and the Social Question -- The Eurocentric legacy -- The legacy of African labour and American soil -- The global movement of labour. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 248 Seiten) |
| ISBN: | 9781350007086 1350007080 9781350007093 1350007099 9781350007079 1350007072 9781350007062 1350007064 |