Globality and Multiple Modernities Comparative North American & Latin American Perspectives,9781902210452

Globality and Multiple Modernities Comparative North American & Latin American Perspectives

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ISBN13: 9781902210452
ISBN10: 190221045X
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2002-01-01
Publisher(s): Liverpool University Press
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Summary

An analysis of the Americas, North and South, in the global and comparative arena, showing how these societies gazed each other and Europe as they followed the road to multiple forms of modernity and globalisation.

Table of Contents

Preface vii
Shmuel N. Eisenstadt
Wolfgang Schluchter
Approaching Multiple Modernities in the Americas
1(6)
Luis Roniger
Carlos H. Waisman
Part I General Perspectives
The First Multiple Modernities: Collective Identity, Public Spheres and Political Order in the Americas
7(22)
Shmuel N. Eisenstadt
Latin America as a Mausoleum of Modernities
29(37)
Laurence Whitehead
Fragment of Europe or Historical Innovation? The Emergence of Modernity in the United States after Independence
66(13)
Jurgen Heideking
Global Immersion: Latin America and its Multiple Modernities
79(27)
Luis Roniger
The Multiple Modernities Argument and Societies in the Americas
106(11)
Carlos H. Waisman
Part II Constitutionalism, Public Spheres and Modernity
Constitutional Development in the United States and Argentina
117(16)
Karen Orren
Constitutional Perspectives on Modernity: The Canadian Experience
133(10)
Roger Gibbins
The Generation of Public Spheres in Brazil: The Role of Abolitionism
143(19)
Leonardo Avritzer
The Meaning of Territory: Colonial Standards and Modern Questions in Ecuador
162(21)
Tamar Herzog
Globalization and Limited Democracy through the Mirror of History in Chile
183(30)
Mario Sznajder
Part III Multiple Modernities: Reflexive Trends
Modernity and Canadian Civilization: The Ideas of Harold A. Innis
213(17)
Douglas Francis
The Counter-Hegemonic Discourse of Brazilian and Argentinean Intellectuals, 1920--1940
230(14)
Leonardo Senkman
Collective Identities and Citizenship in Quebec
244(18)
Luis Cardoso de Oliveira
Modes of Citizenship in Mexico
262(23)
Claudio Lomnitz
Latin American Migrant Writers: ``Nomadic, Decentered, Contrapuntal''
285(28)
Florinda F. Goldberg
List of Contributors 313(6)
Index 319

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