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Colonialism and modern social theory

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: Cambridge Polity Press 2021Description: x, 257 p. ill. Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN:
  • 9781509541300
Subject(s): Other classification:
  • W:77 R1
Summary: Modern society emerged in the context of European colonialism and empire. So, too, did a distinctively modern social theory, laying the basis for most social theorising ever since. Yet colonialism and empire are absent from the conceptual understandings of modern society, which are organised instead around ideas of nation state and capitalist economy.
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Modern society emerged in the context of European colonialism and empire. So, too, did a distinctively modern social theory, laying the basis for most social theorising ever since. Yet colonialism and empire are absent from the conceptual understandings of modern society, which are organised instead around ideas of nation state and capitalist economy.

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