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The last 20 years has seen an explosion of work on literary modernism and its cultural and historical contexts. In this innovative study aimed at a...

The last 20 years has seen an explosion of work on literary modernism and its cultural and historical contexts. In this innovative study aimed at a...

Taylor develops a geohistorical argument which focuses on the periods and places of modernities, offering a grounded analysis of what it is to be m...

Taylor develops a geohistorical argument which focuses on the periods and places of modernities, offering a grounded analysis of what it is to be m...

We live in a modern age, but what does ‘modern’ mean and how can a reflection on ‘modernity’ help us to understand the world today? These are the q...

We live in a modern age, but what does ‘modern’ mean and how can a reflection on ‘modernity’ help us to understand the world today? These are the q...

Bolívar Echeverría was one of the leading philosophers and critical theorists in Latin America and his work on capitalism and modernity offers a di...

Bolívar Echeverría was one of the leading philosophers and critical theorists in Latin America and his work on capitalism and modernity offers a di...

Modern civilization, Bauman argues, promised to make our lives understandable and open to our control. This has not happened and today we no longer...

Modernity and its Futures is a major introductory textbook which examines the forces reshaping modern industrial societies and the new patterns, st...

This volume addresses the problem of how modern societies politically cohere and poses one of the most fundamental questions of contemporary politi...

We are all modern today. But modernity today is not what it used to be. Over the past few decades, modernity has been radically changed by globaliz...

We are all modern today. But modernity today is not what it used to be. Over the past few decades, modernity has been radically changed by globaliz...

This book provides a rich and wide-ranging analysis of Jewish history and culture, relating them to theories of modernity and postmodernity and to ...

Few economic phenomena provoke as much confusion as money. From the first measures of value and the physical coins that circulated at the dawn huma...

Few economic phenomena provoke as much confusion as money. From the first measures of value and the physical coins that circulated at the dawn huma...

This book offers a fresh and uniquely sociological perspective on money and credit. As basic economic institutions, money and credit are easy to ov...

This book offers a fresh and uniquely sociological perspective on money and credit. As basic economic institutions, money and credit are easy to ov...

Jacques Le Goff sets out in this book to explain the role of money, or rather of the various types of money, in the economy, life and mentalities...

Jacques Le Goff sets out in this book to explain the role of money, or rather of the various types of money, in the economy, life and mentalities...

Money is mysterious. We love it, we hate it, but few people can tell you what the heck it really is. Wouldn't it be good to get out of the fog? Thi...

Money is mysterious. We love it, we hate it, but few people can tell you what the heck it really is. Wouldn't it be good to get out of the fog? Thi...

Evil is not confined to war or to circumstances in which people are acting under extreme duress. Today it more frequently reveals itself in the eve...

Evil is not confined to war or to circumstances in which people are acting under extreme duress. Today it more frequently reveals itself in the eve...