Modernities —— A Geohistorical Interpretation

----- 现代性：地学解释

ISBN: 9780745621302 出版年：2013 页码：170 Peter J Taylor Wiley

Preface. Prologue: Being Geohistorical. Whoa s Modern?. 1. Modern, ----ity, ----ism, ----ization:. Ambiguous to the core. Social theory with smoke in its eyes. 2. Prime Modernities:. Multiple moderns versus multiple modernities. Consensus and coercion in the projection of hegemonic power. 3. Ordinary Modernity: . Cultural celebrations of the ordinariness. Feeling comfortable: the modern home. Suburbia: the domestic landscape of consumer modernity. Not modernism. 4. Modern States: . Inter--stateness. Absolutism as a political way of life. Going Dutch. The changing nature of territoriality. 5. Political Movements: . Parties and movements. Movements and modernities. Socialism against the modernity that Britain built. Environmentalism against the modernity that America built. r 6. Geographical Tensions:. Where and what?. Place--space tensions. Nation--state as enabling place and dis--enabling space. Home--household as enabling place and dis--enabling space. 7. Americanization:. Incipient, capacious and resonant Americanizations. Inside America: conditions for constructing a modernity. Outside America: seeing the most modern of the modern. Americanization and globalization. Epilogue. Presents and Ends. System logic: the extraordinary effect of ordinary modernity. Political practice: the post--traditional challenge. References. Index.