TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bhambra, Gurminder K.
AU  - Holmwood, John
TI  - Colonialism and modern social theory
SN  - 9781509541300
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Polity Press
KW  - Colonialism
KW  - Social theory
KW  - Sociology
N2  - 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
ER  -