This volume examines the key institutional structures and processes of modernity. In particular, it examines the form and character of capitalism, the dynamics of war, problems of late development, the nature of civil society, causes of the collapse of state socialism, the revival of nationalism and possibilities for democratization. The central thesis of the book is that modernity arrived well before most social theorists imagined, and it established structures of power and expectation that look set to remain far longer than the theorists of postmodernity claim.
- ISBN10 074561194X
- ISBN13 9780745611945
- Publish Date 12 September 1994
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 14 November 1996
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Polity Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 225
- Language English