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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784741303321

Autore

Smith Jeremy

Titolo

Europe and the Americas : State Formation, Capitalism and Civilizations in Atlantic Modernity / / Jeremy Smith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden; ; Boston : , : BRILL, , 2006

ISBN

1-281-39988-4

9786611399887

90-474-1011-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (352 p.)

Collana

International Comparative Social Studies ; ; 12

Disciplina

940

Soggetti

Civilization

State - History

State, The - History

Europe Civilization

Europe Colonies America

Europe History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction by S. N. Eisenstadt -- 1. Atlantic Modernity and Its Dimensions -- 2. Civilizational Sociology and the Atlantic -- 3. Absolutism and Post-absolutism in Europe's Empires -- 4. Civilization and Pre-colonial Traditions -- 5. 'Discovery' in the West -- 6. Mercantilism, Slavery and the Part Played by the Transatlantic Empires in the Formation -- of Capitalism -- 7. Communities of the Colonial Order -- 8. War and Imperial Re-Division between Utrecht and the Seven Years War -- 9. 'Raising the Decibels': Republican Revolutions of the Colonial Order -- 10. The Atlantic's Distinct Modernity -- Bibliography -- Index.