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Modernities : a Geohistorical Interpretation by Peter J Taylor, (Peter James), 1944- is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Modernities : a Geohistorical Interpretation about?
A thoroughly readable, far-reaching analysis of "modernity" and "the modern, " this book focuses on the specific periods and places where ideas and practices of being modern are created and challenged. Peter J. Taylor contends that modernity is a multiple phenomenon: that is, different modern times and different modern spaces exist in a world of multiple modernities. He argues that three "prime modernities" have been defined by the development of the modern world -- from mercantile modernity to
Who reads Modernities : a Geohistorical Interpretation?
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Peter J Taylor, (Peter James), 1944-
- Publisher
- Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press
- Published
- 1999
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780816690527
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Sociology, World
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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