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Paperback. Argues that economic development, cultural change, and political change go together in coherent and even, to some extent, predictable patterns. This title provides information from societies representing 70 percent of the world's population. Num Pages: 464 pages, 95 line illus. 30 tables. BIC Classification: JFC; JHBC; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 700.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
464
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691011806
ISBN
9780691011806
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 56.72
€ 44.70

Paperback. Evaluates modernity's wager, namely, the gambit to liberate the modern individual from external social and religious norms by supplanting them with the rational self as its own moral authority. This book argues that 'the fundamentalist doctrine of enlightened reason has called into being its own nemesis' in the forms of ethnic and racial politics. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPQ; HRA; JH; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 257.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
190
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691116365
ISBN
9780691116365
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.45

Paperback. Series: Postmillennial Pop. Num Pages: 208 pages, 4 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AV; JFSJ5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 193 x 20. Weight in Grams: 318.
Publisher
New York University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781479817863
ISBN
9781479817863
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 27.19

Hardcover. A study of the role of popular culture and women in particular in the shaping of Iranian modernity Series: Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East. Num Pages: 304 pages, 8 black-&-white illustrations, notes, references, index. BIC Classification: 1FBN; HBTB; JPF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 599.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815632245
ISBN
9780815632245
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.66

Paperback. Series: Worlds S. Num Pages: 240 pages, 17 halftones. BIC Classification: JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 149 x 225 x 11. Weight in Grams: 286.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816644117
ISBN
9780816644117
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.05

Paperback. Explores racial barriers in modern globalized societies Series: Blacks in the Diaspora. Num Pages: 356 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFN; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
356
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253001252
ISBN
9780253001252
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.58

Paperback. In this collection of essays, Leszek Kolakowski delves into some of the most intellectually vigorous questions of our time. Translator(s): Czerniawski, Stefan; Freis, Wolfgang; Kolakowska, Agnieszka. Num Pages: 270 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 412.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
270
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226450469
ISBN
9780226450469
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.39

Hardback. This work examines the lives of people caught in the dynamics of changing mores, rapid urbanization and public health issues in 19th century Buenos Aires. "Modernity in the Flesh" shows the costs Argentines paid for the establishment of liberal democracy between 1880 and 1910. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; 3JH; 3JJC; GTB; HBTB; JFC; JPFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 481.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804748711
ISBN
9780804748711
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 99.78

hardcover. Challenging much received wisdom about nation-states - how they form, what sustains them, why they fail - this study of subaltern social groups in the Chachapoyas region of Peru analyzes the emergence of the modern nation-state from below. Num Pages: 420 pages, 2 illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; JPA; JPHC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 33. Weight in Grams: 800.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
462
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804727822
ISBN
9780804727822
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 183.53

Paperback. Challenging much received wisdom about nation-states - how they form, what sustains them, why they fail - this study of subaltern social groups in the Chachapoyas region of Peru analyzes the emergence of the modern nation-state from below. Num Pages: 420 pages, 2 illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; JPA; JPHC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 27. Weight in Grams: 625.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
420
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780804729581
ISBN
9780804729581
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.19

Paperback. Series: Public Worlds Series. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JHM; KCL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816627936
ISBN
9780816627936
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 24.97

Paperback. We are all modern today. But modernity today is not what it used to be. Over the past few decades, modernity has been radically changed by globalization, individualization, new inequalities, and fundamentalism. A novel way of analysing contemporary societies is needed. This book proposes such an analysis. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 229 x 25. Weight in Grams: 482.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745642192
ISBN
9780745642192
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.32

Hardback. We are all modern today. But modernity today is not what it used to be. Over the past few decades, modernity has been radically changed by globalization, individualization, new inequalities, and fundamentalism. A novel way of analysing contemporary societies is needed. This book proposes such an analysis. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 162 x 29. Weight in Grams: 588.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745642185
ISBN
9780745642185
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 78.69

Hardcover. First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Num Pages: 370 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1FBXS; JH; JP; KC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 246 x 189 x 30. Weight in Grams: 861. Fine clean copy in dust wrapper. DW has light wear, remains very good
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Routledge
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KCW0003503
ISBN
9780710303950
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Hardcover. First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Num Pages: 362 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1FBXS; JH; JP; KC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 51 x 94 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1050. Used hardback in good condition. With dustjacket. Some shelf wear. Ex library with usual markings otherwise remains a good copy.
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Routledge
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1990
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
KRF0018845
ISBN
9780710303950
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Offe is one of the foremost social scientists today; this book brings together his key writings. Highly original study of transformations in Central and Eastern Europe, and of their implications, west and east. Num Pages: 288 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JHM; JPA; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 394.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745616742
ISBN
9780745616742
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.05

Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 2 tables. BIC Classification: JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152. .
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226460550
ISBN
9780226460550
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 32.42

Paperback. New in paperback, this book, is likely to be adopted on many courses covering the Holocaust. A unique but disturbing book - winner of the 1989 European Amalfi Prize for Sociology and Social Sciences. The hardback received enormous acclaim. Zygmunt Bauman is one of the world's leading social theorists. Num Pages: 238 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBTZ1; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 13. Weight in Grams: 440.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
238
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745609300
ISBN
9780745609300
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.13

Paperback. Series: Studies in Critical Social Sciences. Num Pages: 398 pages. BIC Classification: JPWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 568.
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781608463817
ISBN
9781608463817
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.72

Paperback. This work proposes a new view of modernity, arguing that although it may variously be associated wtih the Renaissance, the discovery of the New World and other significant ruptures with primitive or premodern society, modernity fails as an idea if it only defines itself against what it replaces. Series: Richard Lectures. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HPC; HPM; JFC; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 345.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813919669
ISBN
9780813919669
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.60

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