Rethinking Modernity Postcolonialism and the Sociological Imagination

Name: Rethinking Modernity Postcolonialism and the Sociological Imagination
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ISBN: 9780230227156

ISBN-10: 0230227155

ISBN-13: 9780230227156

Edition: 2007

Authors: Gurminder K. Bhambra

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List price: $29.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Limited
Publication date: 4/11/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 200
Size: 5.44" wide x 8.52" long x 0.52" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Gurminder K. Bhambra is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Social Theory Centre at the University of Warwick, UK. She is Series Editor of the Theory for a Global Age series.



Acknowledgements


Introduction: Postcolonialism, Sociology, and the Politics of Knowledge Production



Sociology and Its Historiography



Modernity, Colonialism, and the Postcolonial Critique



European Modernity and the Sociological Imagination



From Modernization to Multiple Modernities: Eurocentrism Redux



Deconstructing Eurocentrism: Connected Histories



Myths of European Cultural Integrity - The Renaissance



Myths of the Modern Nation-State - The French Revolution



Myths of Industrial Capitalism - The Industrial Revolution


Conclusion: Sociology and Social Theory After Postcolonialism - Towards a Connected Historiography


Notes


References


Index