Transition To Modernity

Author : Ernest Gellner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1992-01-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780521382021

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Transition to Modernity by Ernest Gellner Pdf

World languages and human dispersals : a minimalist view / Colin Renfrew -- Nomads and oases in Central Asia / A.M. Khazanov -- Why poverty was inevitable in traditional societies / E.A. Wrigley -- On a little known chapter of Mediterranean history / Karl R. Popper -- Ernest Gellner and the escape to modernity / Alan Macfarlane -- The emergence of modern European nationalism / Michael Mann -- Sovereign individuals / Ronald Dore -- Science, politics, enchantment / Perry Anderson -- Deconstructing post-modernism : Gellner and Crocodile Dundee / Joseph Agassi -- A methodology without presuppositions? / John Watkins -- Gellner's positivism / I.C. Jarvie -- Left versus Right in French political ideology / Louis Dumont -- Property, justice and common good after socialism / John Dunn -- Social contract, democracy and freedom / Gerard Radnitzky -- Thoughts on liberalisation / Jose Merquior -- Peace, peace at last? / John A. Hall.

Author : John A. Hall,I. C. Jarvie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Civilization, Modern
ISBN : OCLC:464136580

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Transition to Modernity by John A. Hall,I. C. Jarvie Pdf

Author : Vaclav Smil
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780190060688

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Grand Transitions by Vaclav Smil Pdf

What makes the modern world work? The answer to this deceptively simple question lies in four "grand transitions" of civilization--in populations, agriculture, energy, and economics--which have transformed the way we live. Societies that have undergone all four transitions emerge into an era of radically different population dynamics, food surpluses (and waste), abundant energy use, and expanding economic opportunities. Simultaneously, in other parts of the world, hundreds of millions remain largely untouched by these developments. Through erudite storytelling, Vaclav Smil investigates the fascinating and complex interactions of these transitions. He argues that the moral imperative to share modernity's benefits has become more acute with increasing economic inequality, but addressing this imbalance would make it exceedingly difficult to implement the changes necessary for the long-term preservation of the environment. Thus, managing the fifth transition--environmental changes from natural-resource depletion, biodiversity loss, and global warming--will determine the success or eventual failure of the grand transitions that have made the world we live in today.

Author : John A. Hall,I. C. Jarvie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1992-01-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521382025

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Transition to Modernity by John A. Hall,I. C. Jarvie Pdf

This set of essays is concerned with the explanation of large scale social change. Concentration is on the social stagnation characteristic of agrarian circumstances, the conditions for exit from that world, and the varied social orders that inhabit, sometimes precariously, the modern world community. The distinguished contributors from archaeology, anthropology, sociology, economic history and philosophy, have all been stimulated by the work of Ernest Gellner, and the essays are in dialogue with his view of our social condition.

Author : Ayelet Zohar,Alison J. J. Miller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000477474

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The Visual Culture of Meiji Japan by Ayelet Zohar,Alison J. J. Miller Pdf

This volume examines the visual culture of Japan’s transition to modernity, from 1868 to the first decades of the twentieth century. Through this important moment in Japanese history, contributors reflect on Japan’s transcultural artistic imagination vis-a-vis the discernment, negotiation, assimilation, and assemblage of diverse aesthetic concepts and visual pursuits. The collected chapters show how new cultural notions were partially modified and integrated to become the artistic methods of modern Japan, based on the hybridization of major ideologies, visualities, technologies, productions, formulations, and modes of representation. The book presents case studies of creative transformation demonstrating how new concepts and methods were perceived and altered to match views and theories prevalent in Meiji Japan, and by what means different practitioners negotiated between their existing skills and the knowledge generated from incoming ideas to create innovative modes of practice and representation that reflected the specificity of modern Japanese artistic circumstances. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, Japanese studies, Asian studies, and Japanese history, as well as those who use approaches and methods related to globalization, cross-cultural studies, transcultural exchange, and interdisciplinary studies.

Author : Niki Alsford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315279190

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Transitions to Modernity in Taiwan by Niki Alsford Pdf

On 19 April 1895, British Consul Lionel Charles Hopkins, at the northern port of Tamsui, was summoned by Tang Jingsong, the governor of Taiwan, to his yamen in the western district of Taipei. Shortly after his arrival, Hopkins was handed a petition. Signed by a number of Taiwanese ‘notables’, the document appealed to the British government to incorporate the island into a protectorate in the wake of an impending Japanese invasion. The British declined. This book addresses the interconnectivity of these two communities, by focusing on the market town of Dadaocheng in northern Taiwan. It seeks to contextualise and examine the establishment of a ‘settler society’ as well as the creation of a sojourning British community, showing how they became a precursor of modernity and ‘middle classism’ there. By uncovering who the signatories of the petition were and what their motivation was to call upon the British consulate to bring the island under its protection, it brings into focus a remarkable period of transition not only for the history of Taiwan but also for the modern history of China. Using 1895 as a year of enquiry, it ultimately challenges the current orthodoxy that modernity in Taiwan was simply a by-product of the Japanese colonial period. As a social and transnational history of the events that took place in Taiwan during 1895, this book will be useful for students of East Asian Studies, Modern Chinese Studies and Asian History.

Author : Paolo Pombeni
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317307174

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The Historiography of Transition by Paolo Pombeni Pdf

Defining a “historic transition” means understanding how the complex system of intellectual, social, and material structures formed that determined the transition from a certain “universe” to a “new universe,” where the old explanations were radically rethought. In this book, a group of historians with specializations ranging from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries and across political, religious, and social fields, attempt a reinterpretation of “modernity” as the new “Axial Age.”

Author : Tim Oakes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005-06-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134659999

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Tourism and Modernity in China by Tim Oakes Pdf

This book explores how the experience of modernization is revealed in China's newly constructed tourist landscapes. It argues that in China's burgeoning ethnic tourist villages and theme parks can be seen all the contradictions, debasement, and liberating potentials of Chinese modernity. Tim Oakes uses the province of Guizhou to examine the Chinese tourist industry as an example of the state's modernization policies and how local people have engaged with these changes.

Author : Evguenia Davidova
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789004236417

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Balkan Transitions to Modernity and Nation-States by Evguenia Davidova Pdf

Drawing upon previously unpublished commercial ledgers and correspondence, this study offers a collective social biography of three generations of Balkan merchants. Personal accounts humanize multiethnic networks that navigated multiple social systems – supporting and opposing various aspects of nationalist ideologies.

Author : Magdalena Gibiec,Leszek Ziątkowski,Dorota Wiśniewska
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781527539631

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The City and the Process of Transition from Early Modern Times to the Present by Magdalena Gibiec,Leszek Ziątkowski,Dorota Wiśniewska Pdf

In 2017, during a conference held at the Historical Institute of the University of Wrocław, Poland, an international group of early career researchers and PhD students had the opportunity to discuss the process of transition in cities from early modern times to the present day. This book, arising from the discussions of that meeting, focuses on the social, economic, political and structural transformations of some cities in Europe, the Near East and Asia from the seventeenth century up to the contemporary era. The first part of the text, entitled “Facing the Other: Perception, Relations, (Co)existence” explores the attitudes of the locals towards newcomers to a city, as well as the coexistence of different social, ethnic, religious and cultural groups, and their adaptation, assimilation, integration, and rejection. The second part “The Evolution of the Urban Space” concentrates on municipal and central authorities’ policies that, together with structural transformations in the urban tissue, had a direct impact on public space and the everyday life of the city dwellers. The volume will serve to contribute to the international discussion on the complexity of progressive urbanisation and its consequences from the early modern period onwards.

Author : Walden Browne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0806132337

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Sahagún and the Transition to Modernity by Walden Browne Pdf

Fray Bernardino de Sahagun, best known as the most important source for information on precolonial and colonial Nahuas (Aztecs), is generally recognized as an anthropologist, a humanist, and a practitioner of modern scientific methods. In Sahagun and the Transition to Modernity, Walden Browne paints a strikingly different picture of the sixteenth-century Franciscan Fray Sahagun -- as a product of his times rather than as a precursor of the modern era. Browne argues that Sahagun's work actually signals the disintegration of medieval ways of knowing in the crisis-ridden missionary environment of New Spain more than four hundred years ago. Responding to the dilemmas within the mission in New Spain, Sahagun used the tools of medieval scholasticism to place Nahua culture within a unified Christian worldview. In the face of certain Nahua traits, however, that scholasticism fell short. Browne argues that Sahagun's unsuccessful struggle to redefine Nahuas according to medieval ideals exemplifies the transition from the medieval period to modernity.

Author : Gregory B. Smith
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1996-02-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0226763404

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Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Transition to Postmodernity by Gregory B. Smith Pdf

Nietzsche and Heidegger, Smith argues, have made possible a far more revolutionary critique of modernity than even their most ardent postmodern admirers have realized.

Author : William Kuskin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0268206759

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Recursive Origins by William Kuskin Pdf

In this pioneering work, William Kuskin turns a keen eye on the literary production of early modernity and discovers there the traces of recursivity.

Author : Minghui Hu
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295806068

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China's Transition to Modernity by Minghui Hu Pdf

The figure of Dai Zhen (1724–1777) looms large in modern Chinese intellectual history. Dai was a mathematical astronomer and influential polymath who, along with like-minded scholars, sought to balance understandings of science, technology, and history within the framework of classical Chinese writings. Exploring ideas in fields as broad-ranging as astronomy, geography, governance, phonology, and etymology, Dai grappled with Western ideas and philosophies, including Jesuit conceptions of cosmology, which were so important to the Qing dynasty (1644–1911) court’s need for calendrical precision. Minghui Hu tells the story of China’s transition into modernity from the perspective of 18th-century Chinese scholars dedicated to examining the present and past with the tools of evidential analysis. Using Dai as the centering point, Hu shows how the tongru (“broadly learned scholars”) of this era navigated Confucian, Jesuit, and other worldviews during a dynamic period, connecting ancient theories to new knowledge in the process. Scholars and students of early modern Chinese history, and those examining science, religious, and intellectual history more broadly, will find China’s Transition to Modernity inspiring and helpful for their research and teaching.

Author : Dr Mattijs Smits
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781472448750

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Southeast Asian Energy Transitions by Dr Mattijs Smits Pdf

Addressing the apparent tensions between modernity and sustainability in Southeast Asia, this book offers novel insights into the global challenge of moving towards a low-carbon energy system. With an original and accessible take on social theory related to energy transitions, modernity and sustainability, Mattijs Smits argues for a reinvigorated geography of energy. He also challenges universalistic and linear assumptions about energy transitions and makes the case for ‘energy trajectories’, stressing embeddedness, contingency and connections between scales.