Recognising European Modernities: A Montage of the Present

by Allan Pred and Pred Allan

Book Overview

For over a century, Europe has been characterised by a plurality of capitalist modernities. At any moment, each country possesses its own distinctly modern qualities which are partly shaped through interrelationships with other countries. Each European commodity society has experienced successive, but different overlapping, periods of industrial modernity (large scale factories and urban growth), high modernity (social modernization promoted by social...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415121361
• ISBN13: 9780415121361
• Release Date: September 1995
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.4" x 9.7"