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Different Paths to Modernity

2005-01-01 Social Science
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Release : 2005-01-01
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Different Paths to Modernity by : Magnus Jerneck

Download or read book Different Paths to Modernity written by Magnus Jerneck. This book was released on 2005-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last 100 years, most European countries have experienced great, and in many cases similar changes. A general term for the phenomenon is 'modernisation', and in this anthology the authors present several different aspects of modernisation and the modernisation revolution. Among other issues, the articles are based on the importance of industrialisation, education and economic development for the success of modernisation. Spain, Sweden and Denmark have been used as starting points to illustrate differences in the modernisation process between northern and southern Europe.

Entangled Paths Towards Modernity

2009-01-01 Political Science
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Release : 2009-01-01
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis Entangled Paths Towards Modernity by : Augusta Dimou

Download or read book Entangled Paths Towards Modernity written by Augusta Dimou. This book was released on 2009-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an important and innovative comparative study of socialist movements and regimes of modernization in the Balkans, encompassing Serbian populism, Bulgarian social democracy and Greek communism. It makes an original contribution both to the history of political ideas and to the political sociology of radical and socialist movements. It provides a fascinating account of the transplantation of ideologies that were adopted from Western Europe and from Russia into the very different environment of the Balkans, and traces their adaptation and their reception in this new environment. Book jacket.

Nationalism

1992 History
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Release : 1992
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Nationalism by : Liah Greenfeld

Download or read book Nationalism written by Liah Greenfeld. This book was released on 1992. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nationalism is a movement and a state of mind that brings together national identity, consciousness, and collectivities. A five-country study that spans five hundred years, this historically oriented work in sociology bids well to replace all previous works on the subject.

The Roads to Modernity

2007-12-18 History
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Release : 2007-12-18
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Roads to Modernity by : Gertrude Himmelfarb

Download or read book The Roads to Modernity written by Gertrude Himmelfarb. This book was released on 2007-12-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an elegant, eminently readable work, one of our most distinguished intellectual historians gives us a brilliant revisionist history. The Roads to Modernity reclaims the Enlightenment–an extraordinary time bursting with new ideas about human nature, politics, society, and religion--from historians who have downgraded its importance and from scholars who have given preeminence to the Enlightenment in France over concurrent movements in England and America. Contrasting the Enlightenments in the three nations, Himmelfarb demonstrates the primacy and wisdom of the British, exemplified in such thinkers as Adam Smith, David Hume, and Edmund Burke, as well as the unique and enduring contributions of the American Founders. It is their Enlightenments, she argues, that created a social ethic–humane, compassionate, and realistic–that still resonates strongly today, in America perhaps even more than in Europe. The Roads to Modernity is a remarkable and illuminating contribution to the history of ideas.

Nordic Paths to Modernity

2012-02-01 History
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Release : 2012-02-01
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Nordic Paths to Modernity by : Jóhann Páll Árnason

Download or read book Nordic Paths to Modernity written by Jóhann Páll Árnason. This book was released on 2012-02-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within the growing attention to the diverse forms and trajectories of modern societies, the Nordic countries are now widely seen as a distinctive and instructive case. While discussions have centred on the ‘Nordic model’ of the welfare state and its record of adaptation to the changing global environment of the late twentieth century, this volume’s focus goes beyond these themes. The guiding principle here is that a long-term historical-sociological perspective is needed to make sense of the Nordic paths to modernity; of their significant but not complete convergence in patterns, which for some time were perceived as aspects of a model to be emulated in other settings; and of the specific features that still set the five countries in question (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Iceland) apart from one another. The contributors explore transformative processes, above all the change from an absolutistmilitary state to a democratic one with its welfarist phase, as well as the crucial experiences that will have significant implications on future developments.

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