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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Trakulhun, Sven, editor.

Weber, Ralph, 1974- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Modern.

Politics and culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection seeks to contribute to the many long-standing discussions on modernity, but also and more specifically to the more recent debates over trends to pluralize modernity.These debates are current in many different academic disciplines such as sociology, anthropology, literature and postcolonial studies.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Related Work:

Container of: Cheah, Pheng. Of other worlds to come.

ISBN:

0-7391-9949-8

OCLC:

903646036