Description
Book SynopsisThis book analyzes 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 globalization. New insights are contributed on the ways in which reflected conceptions of modernity, with utopian overtones, influenced the ways in which politicians and intellectuals viewed their own societies, other societies in the New World, and the older nations of Europe.
Trade Review"Well worth reading for its coherence, the quality of chapters that use rich historical detail and the scope of its empirical roots." -- Contemporary Sociology.
Table of ContentsContents: Approaching Multiple Modernities in the Americas; The First Multiple Modernities: Collective Identity, Public Spheres and Political Order in the Americas; Latin America as a Mausoleum of Modernities; Fragment of Europe or Historical Innovation? The Emergence of Modernity in the United States after Independence; Global Immersion: Latin America and its Multiple Modernities; The Multiple Modernities Argument and Societies in the Americas; Constitutional Development in the United States and Argentina; Constitutional Perspectives on Modernity: The Canadian Experience; The Generation of Public Spheres in Brazil: The Role of Abolitionism ; The Meaning of Territory: Colonial Standards and Modern Questions in Ecuador; Globalisation and Limited Democracy through the Mirror of History in Chile; Modernity and Canadian Civilisation: The Ideas of Harold A. Innis; The Counter-Hegemonic Discourse of Brazilian and Argentinean Intellectuals, 1920--1940; Collective Identities and Citizenship in Quebec; Modes of Citizenship in Mexico; Latin American Migrant Writers: Nomadic, Decentred, Contrapuntal'; Index.
