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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810279903321

Titolo

Delimiting modernities : conceptual challenges and regional responses / / edited by Sven Trakulhun and Ralph Weber

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-7391-9949-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CheahPheng

Disciplina

909.8

Soggetti

Civilization, Modern

Politics and culture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Of other worlds to come / by Pheng Cheah -- What is modernities a plural of? : a rhetorical analysis of some recent uses / by Ralph Weber -- Varieties of modernity? : conceptual prerequisites and empirical observations / by Volker H. Schmidt -- The origins of the social sciences and the problem of conceptualizing modernity/modernities / by Wolfgang Knöbl -- Waiting for the simorgh : comparisons, connections, and the early modern / by Sanjay Subrahmanyam -- Early modernity as cosmopolis : some suggestions from Southeast Asia / by Anthony Reid -- Revisioning modernity : modernity in Eurasian perspectives / by Arif Dirlik -- New historicism and Chinese modernity : multiple mythologies revisited / by Andrea Riemenschnitter -- Making modern Muslims : Islamic reform, Hasan al-Banna, and the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood / by Gudrun Krämer -- Dilemmas of development : Dr. Krisana Kraisintu's praxis in Asia and Africa / by Tamara Loos.