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Public Spheres and Collective Identities (Hardcover)
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Today it is assumed that we understand contemporary nationalism and
nation-building. Researchers rarely consider the very different
traditions from which such state-building emerged. Instead, there
is almost too much discussion of the "global village," with its
supposed uniformity and inevitable trajectories. We need to view
modernity as something other than a single condition with a
preordained future. New visions of a modern civilization are
emerging throughout the world, calliing for a far-reaching
appraisal of the older visions of modernization. Following
Eisenstadt's and Schluchter's introduction, Bjorn Wittrock explores
the varieties and transitions of early modern societies, noting
that only by looking at societies' collective identities and their
modes of mediating in the public sphere can the distinguishing
factors between modernity be appreciated. Sheldon Pollock discusses
the use of vernacular language in India through its literary
culture and polity, 1000-1500. Sanjay Subrahmanyam, sums up major
developments in the recent historiography of South Asia from 1400
to 1750. David L. Howell focuses on the boundaries of the early
modern Japanese state, including its political boundaries and the
boundaries of collective identity and social status. Mary Elizabeth
Berry examines public life in authoritarian Japan. Frederic
Wakeman, Jr. probes the boundaries of the political game and how
they were affected by the increased political centralization that
developed after the disorder of the Ming-Qing transition during the
seventeenth century. Alexander Woodside discusses territorial order
and collective-identity tensions in Confucian Asia. Bernhard Giesen
argues that the French Enlightenment can be described as an
extension of absolutist court culture. Finally essay, Victor
Perez-Diaz examines the state and public sphere in Spain during the
Ancient Regime contrasting two ideal types of states--a
"nomocratic" model and a "teleocratic" model. This volume addresses
cultural and political practices not only from outside the European
and American spheres but also over long periods of time in which
the internal dynamics of other civilizations become visible. Its
broad-ranging use of empirical materials enables us to think
comparatively and historically about the ways in which different
modernities took shape.
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