Screen LibraryEurope and the Americas：state formation, capitalism and civilizations in Atlantic modernity
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| Published: |
Brill,
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| Publisher Address: | Leiden Boston |
| Publication Dates: | 2006. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
International comparative social studies ; v. 12 |
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| Carrier Form: | xii, 340 p.: ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9004152296 (alk. paper) 9789004152298 (alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | K503 |
| CLC: |
K503 K5 |
| Call Number: | K5/S651 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-332) and index. Atlantic modernity and its dimensions -- Civilizational sociology and the Atlantic -- Absolutism and post-absolutism in Europe's empires -- Civilization and pre-colonial traditions -- 'Discovery' in the west -- Mercantilism, slavery and the part played by the transatlantic empires in the formation of capitalism -- Communities of the colonial order -- War and imperial re-division between Utrecht and the seven years war -- 'Raising the decibels': republican revolutions of the colonial order -- The Atlantic's distinct modernity. |