Modernities : A Geohistorical Interpretation.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Prologue: Being Geohistorical -- Who's modern? -- Whose modern? -- 1 Modern, -ity, -ism, -ization -- Ambiguous to the core -- Social theory with smoke in its eyes -- Multiple moderns versus multiple modernities -- Modernizations of modernities -- 2 Prime Modernities -- World hegemony as uneven social change -- Three prime modernities -- Two modernizations of modernities -- Consensus and coercion in the projection of hegemonic power -- 3 Ordinary Modernity -- Cultural celebrations of ordinariness -- Feeling comfortable: the modern home -- Suburbia: the domestic landscape of consumer modernity -- Not modernism -- 4 Modern States -- Inter-stateness -- Absolutism as a political way of life -- Going Dutch -- The changing nature of territoriality -- 5 Political Movements -- Parties and movements -- Movements and modernities -- Socialism against the modernity that Britain created -- Environmentalism against the modernity that America created -- 6 Geographical Tensions -- Where and what? -- Place-space tensions -- Nation-state as enabling place and dis-enabling space -- Home-household as enabling place and dis-enabling space -- 7 Americanization -- Incipient, capacious and resonant Americanizations -- Inside America: conditions for constructing a modernity -- Outside America: seeing the most modern of the modern -- Americanization and globalization -- Epilogue: Presents and Ends -- System logic: the extraordinary effect of ordinary modernity -- Political practice: the post-traditional challenge -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

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