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Globality and Multiple Modernities
Comparative North American and Latin American Perspectives

Edited by Luis Roniger and Carlos H. Waisman
Luis Roniger is senior lecturer of Sociology and Anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Fellow of the Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace. Carlos H. Waisman is Professor of Socilocy and Chair of the Department of Socilogy at the University of California, San Diego.

“Well worth reading for its coherence, the quality of chapters that use rich historical detail and the scope of its empirical roots.” Contemporary Sociology

“This timely book debunks the myth that ‘modernity’ is identical to ‘Western,’ and that ‘Western’ and ‘European’ are the same thing. A wonderful introduction to the nuances of the civilizing processes in the Americas.” Leon Zamosc, Director of Latin American Studies, University of California, San Diego

“Globality and Multiple Modernities breaks with former reductionist readings of the nature of American – particularly Latin American – modernities. It is an indispensable reading for anyone trying to understand the roots of current-day political challenges.” Isidoro Cheresky, Professor of Contemporary Political Theory, University of Buenos Aires

This book analyzes the Americas, North and South, in the global and comparative arena, showing how these societies gazed each other and Europe as they followed the road to multiple forms of modernity and globalization. New insights are contributed on the ways in which reflected conceptions of modernity, with utopian overtones, influenced the ways in which politicians and intellectuals viewed their own societies, other societies in the “New World,” and the older nations of Europe.

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