Author: Derek Sayer
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134979126
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author: Jack Goody
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 074563799X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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This important new book investigates how the West attained its current position of economic and social advantage. In an incisive historical analysis, Jack Goody examines when and why Europe (and Anglo-America) started to outstrip all other continents in socio-economic growth. Drawing on non-Western examples of economic and technical progress, Goody challenges assumptions about long-term European supremacy of a ‘cultural’ kind, as was a feature of many theories current in social science. He argues that the divergence came with the Industrial Revolution and that the earlier bourgeois revolution of the sixteenth century was but one among many Eurasia-wide expressions of developing mercantile and manufacturing activity. This original book casts new light on the history of capitalism, industrialization and modernity, and will be essential reading for all those interested in the great debate about the economic rise of the West.

Author: Peter Matanle
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134403801
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author: Arif Dirlik
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317258924
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 188

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"A compelling essay on the contemporary human condition." William D. Coleman, Director of the Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition, McMaster University "An unusually perceptive and balanced appraisal of the globalization hype and its relation to the reality of global capitalism." Immanuel Wallerstein, Yale University In his provocative new book Arif Dirlik argues that the present represents not the beginning of globalization, but its end. We are instead in a new era in the unfolding of capitalism -- "global modernity". The fall of communism in the 1980s generated culturally informed counter-claims to modernity. Globalization has fragmented our understanding of what is "modern". Dirlik's "global modernity" is a concept that enables us to distinguish the present from its Eurocentric past, while recognizing the crucial importance of that past in shaping the present.

Author: Roger A. Salerno
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 0791486273
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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Examines the relationship of modern life, including modern capitalism, to feelings and phenomena of abandonment.

Author: Alissa G. Karl
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136094741
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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Though the relationship of modernist writers and artists to mass-marketplaces and popular cultural forms is often understood as one of ambivalence if not antagonism, Modernism and the Marketplace redirects this established line of inquiry, considering the practical and conceptual interfaces between literary practice and dominant economic institutions and ideas.

Author: Peter Matanle
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134403798
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author: Vittorio Cotesta
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527522210
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 229

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Who was Max Weber? How did he live? What were his dreams, desires and designs? What relationship existed between his life, his illness and his work? Why are his studies of capitalism and China still so important today? This book throws light on a problem-riddled Weber, a man lacerated by tragic contradictions, a great intellectual, nationalistic yet cosmopolitan. This investigation of his private life reveals a tender, impassioned man, who, at a time of overwhelming conflict, sought true life in love. Whether Confucianism impeded the birth of modern capitalism in China remains a controversial issue. Equally problematic is the theory of the Calvinistic origins of European capitalism. Weber, however, answers both questions in an original manner, while also providing a lesson in methodology which remains unparalleled to date. A century after his death, Max Weber remains a controversial figure of the political and social sciences.

Author: Michael Savage
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Capitalism
Languages : en
Pages : 221

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Seeks to defend the achievements of urban sociology, and its contribution to evaluating theories of the nature and implications of capitalism and modernity. The book reviews the history of urban sociology, theories of uneven development, studies of urban inequalities and analyses of urban culture.

Author: Hannes Lacher
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134355211
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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Hannes Lacher presents a new critical social theory of international relations that integrates sociology, history and political geography to understand the formation and development of modern international relations. Far from implying a return to state-centrist Realism, this essential new volume leads us towards a critical social theory of international relations that questions the prevailing conceptions of the modern international political economy as a collection of nationally bounded spaces more fundamentally than ever before. It also shows us that capitalist modernity itself was, from the beginning, characterized by the dualism of global economic integration and the fragmentation of political space, which actually stems from the divergent origins of capitalism and territorial sovereignty. This book will be of great interest to al students of historical sociology, political geography, international relations and political science.