Public Spheres and Collective Identities

by S.N. Eisenstadt

Today it is assumed that we understand contemporary nationalism and nation-building. Researchers rarely consider the very different traditions from which such state-building emerged. Instead, there is almost too much discussion of the "global village," with its supposed uniformity and inevitable trajectories. We need to view modernity as something other than a single condition with a preordained future. New visions of a modern civilization are...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765807149
• ISBN13: 9780765807144
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"