European Modernity: A Global Approach

by Peter Wagner and Bo Stråth

Book Overview

It is often taken for granted that modernity emerged in Europe and diffused from there across the world. This book questions that assumption and re-examines the question of European modernity in the light of world history.

Bo Str th and Peter Wagner re-position Europe in the global context of the 19th and 20th
centuries. They show that Europe is less modern than has been assumed, and modernity less European and thus decentre Europe...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350007072
• ISBN13: 9781350007079
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"