LEADER 03942nam 22006135 450 001 9910337707003321 005 20230810194725.0 010 $a9783319954356 010 $a3319954350 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-95435-6 035 $a(CKB)4100000005958252 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-95435-6 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5922261 035 $a(Perlego)3490951 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000005958252 100 $a20180824d2019 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aFormations of European Modernity $eA Historical and Political Sociology of Europe /$fby Gerard Delanty 205 $a2nd ed. 2019. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource (LIX, 479 p. 1 illus.) 311 08$a9783319954349 311 08$a3319954342 327 $aA Introduction: A Theoretical Framework -- Part 1 Sources of the Europe Heritage -- 1. The European Inter-Civilizational Constellation -- 2. The Greco-Roman and Judaic Legacies -- 3. Christianity in the Making of Europe -- 4. Between East and West: The Byzantine Legacy and Russia -- 5. The Islamic World and Islam in Europe -- Part 2 The Emergence of Modernity -- 6. The Renaissance and the Rise of European Consciousness -- 7. Unity and Divisions in Early modern European History: The Emergence of a Westernized Europe -- 8. The Enlightenment and the Idea of Europe -- 9. The Rise of the Nation-State and the Allure of Empire: Between Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism -- 10. Europe as a World Historical Region: A Global Perspective on the European Formation of Modernity -- 11. The Historical Regions of Europe: Civilizational Backgrounds and Multiple Routes to Modernity -- 12. Europe in the Short Twentieth Century: Conflicting Projects of Modernity. Part 3 The Present and its Discontents -- 13. Europe since 1989: Globalization, Europeanization and the Crisis of the Nation-State in Late Modernity -- 14. Age of Austerity: Contradictions of Capitalism and Democracy and the Crisis of European Integration -- 15. 'The Centre Cannot Hold': The Return of Nationalism and the Specter of Authoritarian Democracy -- 16. Memory, Heritage and History: The European Heritage as a Conflict of Interpretations -- Conclusion: Europe - A Defence. 330 $aThis book presents a historical and political sociology of European history and society. It offers a critical interpretation of the course of European history looking at the emergence of the idea of Europe and the formation of modernity. Now fully updated, Delanty's second edition features commentary on Brexit, populism, the refugee crisis, and secessionism, as well as additional coverage of colonialism and the wider global context. The book will be in an invaluable resource for advanced undergraduates and postgraduate students of historical sociology, the history of Europe, nations and modernity, political sociology, and political and social theory. 606 $aSociology 606 $aPolitical sociology 606 $aEurope$xHistory 606 $aEurope$xPolitics and government 606 $aSociological Theory 606 $aPolitical Sociology 606 $aEuropean History 606 $aEuropean Politics 615 0$aSociology. 615 0$aPolitical sociology. 615 0$aEurope$xHistory. 615 0$aEurope$xPolitics and government. 615 14$aSociological Theory. 615 24$aPolitical Sociology. 615 24$aEuropean History. 615 24$aEuropean Politics. 676 $a306.2 700 $aDelanty$b Gerard$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0606996 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910337707003321 996 $aFormations of European Modernity$92519354 997 $aUNINA