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100 _aBhambra, Gurminder K.
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245 _aColonialism and Modern Social Theory
260 _aUSA
_bPolity
_c2021
300 _ax, 257 p.
_bIncludes bibliography, notes and index
520 _aModern 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.
650 _aSociology
650 _aSocial Sciences
700 _aHolmwood, John
_eCo-author
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