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UNINA9910972208303321 |
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Lushaba Lwazi |
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Development as modernity, modernity as development / / Lwazi Siyabonga Lushaba |
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Dakar, : Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, c2009 |
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9786612901324 |
9781282901322 |
128290132X |
9782869783935 |
2869783930 |
9782869783492 |
2869783493 |
9782869783027 |
2869783027 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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1 online resource (80 p.) |
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Interventions series Development as modernity, modernity as development |
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Disciplina |
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Modernization |
Economic development - Africa |
Economic development - Social aspects |
Africa Social conditions |
Africa Politics and government |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 70-72). |
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Front Cover; Title Page; Contents; About the Author; Introduction; The Enlightenment and Modernity; Mapping the Genealogy of Modernity; Early Modernity; Capitalist Modernity; Hyper-Modernity (Global Capitalism); Beyond Western Modernity; Conclusion; Notes; References; Mapping the Genealogy of Modernity |
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This book analyses the impact of the Western idea of 'modernity' on development and underdevelopment in Africa. It traces the genealogy of the Western idea of modernity from European Enlightenment |
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concepts of the universal nature of human history and development, and shows how this idea was used to justify the Western exploitation and oppression of Africa. It argues that contemporary development, theory and practice is a continuation of the Enlightenment project and that Africa can only achieve real development by rejecting Western modernity and inventing its own forms of modernity. The book i |
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UNINA9911014869103321 |
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Autore |
Koselleck, Reinhart |
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Ermeneutica e istorica / Reinhart Koselleck, Hans-Georg Gadamer |
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Genova, : Il melangolo, 1990 |
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Traduzione di Paola Biale |
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UNINA9910973405603321 |
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Titolo |
Discussing Hitler : advisers of U.S. diplomacy in Central Europe, 1934-1941 / / edited and introduced by Tibor Frank |
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Budapest ; ; New York, : Central European University Press, 2003 |
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1-003-71919-8 |
0-585-46431-6 |
615-5211-06-X |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (374 pages) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Diplomats - United States |
United States Foreign relations 1933-1945 Sources |
Hungary Foreign relations 1918-1945 Sources |
Europe Foreign relations 1918-1945 Sources |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- A Vermont Yankee in Regent Horthy’s Court: the Hungarian World of a U.S. Diplomat -- List of the Confidential Conversations of U.S. Minister John F. Montgomery, Budapest 1934–1941 -- Conversations -- Appendix -- Chronology of Events, 1933–1941 -- Biographical Notes -- Diplomatic Representatives in Budapest, 1933–1941 -- Bibliography -- List of Illustrations -- Index |
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This book promises to illuminate the foreign policy of the Roosevelt administration during the rise of Hitler's Germany. It is based on the heretofore unpublished notes of J. F. Montgomery (1878-1954), U.S. ambassador ("Minister") to Hungary before World War II. In Budapest, Montgomery quickly made friends with nearly everyone who mattered in the critical years of Hitler's takeover and preparation for World War II. His circle included Admiral Horthy, the Regent of Hungary, subsequent prime ministers, foreign ministers, members of both houses of parliament, as well as fellow diplomats from all over Europe. In addition, as an avid player of golf and bridge, he had an active social life that was interconnected with a large circle of influential friends in |
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