Reflections on the Modern and the Global |
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Author:
| Mazlish, Bruce |
ISBN: | 978-1-4128-5184-8 |
Publication Date: | Oct 2013 |
Publisher: | Routledge
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $115.00 |
Book Description:
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Over the past five hundred years, historians and other social scientists have perceived an extraordinary occurrence: the transition from the Middle Ages, via the Renaissance, to modernity. Equally remarkable has been the transition taking place in the last fifty years from modernity to globalisation. Bruce Mazlish argues that in order to understand ourselves in the world today we need to know more about the nature of both concepts.
Over the past five hundred years, historians and other social scientists have perceived an extraordinary occurrence: the transition from the Middle Ages, via the Renaissance, to modernity. Equally remarkable has been the transition taking place in the last fifty years from modernity to globalisation. Bruce Mazlish argues that in order to understand ourselves in the world today we need to know more about the nature of both concepts.