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020 _a9781509541300
037 _cTextual
040 _aRTL
_cRTL
084 _aW:77 R1
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100 _aBhambra, Gurminder K.
245 _aColonialism and modern social theory
260 _aCambridge
_bPolity Press
_c2021
300 _ax, 257 p. ill.
_bIncludes bibliographical references 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 _aColonialism
650 _aSocial theory
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650 _aSociology
700 _aHolmwood, John
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