Formations of European Modernity : a Historical and Political Sociology of Europe / by Gerard Delanty.
Delanty, Gerard., author
2019
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Title Formations of European Modernity : a Historical and Political Sociology of Europe / by Gerard Delanty.
Author Delanty, Gerard., author
Edition 2nd ed. 2019.
ISBN 9783319954356
3319954350
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95435-6
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (LIX, 479 pages 1 illustration) : illustrations
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-319-95435-6 doi
Call Number HM104
Dewey Decimal Classification 301
Summary This 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.
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A 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.

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