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Author:   Saïd Amir Arjomand
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.680kg
ISBN:  

9781438451602

ISBN 10:   1438451601
Pages:   496
Publication Date:   02 January 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Foreword: Pangaea II: Global/Local Studies Preface Introduction: The Challenge of Integrating Social Theory and Regional Studies Part I. Comparative Sociology, Civilizational Analysis, and Regional Studies 1. Three Generations of Comparative Sociologies Said Amir Arjomand 2. History, Sociology, and the Reconfiguration of Civilizations Bjorn Wittork 3. Civilization in the Global Era: One, Many... or None? Edward A. Tiryakian 4. Power: Nation-States, Civilizations, and Globalization-A Multiple Modernities Perspective Willfried Spohn 5. Reconfiguring Area Studies for the Global Age Wolf Schafer Part II. Historicizing Axial Shifts and Patterns of Evolution and Modernization 6. Historicizing Axial Civilizations Johann P. Arnason 7. Crystallization of Islam and Developmental Patterns in the Islamicate Civilization Said Amir Arjomand 8. Evolutionary Grades within Complex Societies: The Case of Ethiopia Donald N. Levine 9. From Civilizations to Modernity: Divisions and Connections of the World, and Their Legacy-A Historical Social Geology Goran Therborn Part III. World Regions, Colonial and Subaltern Modernities in the Global Periphery 10. World-Sociology Beyond the Fragments: Oblivion and Advance in the Comparative Analysis of Modernities Peter Wagner 11. The Americas, Civilized Analysis, and Its Current Competitors: Bringing (Revolutionary) Politics Back In! Wolfgang Knobl 12. Atlantic Capitalism, American Economic Cultures Jeremy C. A. Smith 13. Second Slavery versus Second Serfdom: Local Labor Regimes of the Global Periphery Menuela Boatca 14. Subaltern Modernity: The Case of the Arab Iranian Community of Bushehr Babak Rahimi 15. The Construction of Regional Identities in East Asia Thomas Kern, Lotta Mayer, and Sang-hui Nam 16. Gazing Backward or Looking Forward: Colonial Modernity and Making of a Sociology of Modern India Sujata Patel Contibutors Index

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This book is a long-needed bridge between the increased transnational, regionalized, and interconnected world. It offers a sound foundation on which future scholars, particularly those with interests in comparative analysis, will be able to draw. - H-Net Reviews (H-USA) ...the book contains all sorts of information and argument that make it worth reading ... [it] represents an advance in sociology, from the concentration on industrial societies to a full and proper concern with the historical record. - European Journal of Sociology

"""This book is a long-needed bridge between the increased transnational, regionalized, and interconnected world. It offers a sound foundation on which future scholars, particularly those with interests in comparative analysis, will be able to draw."" - H-Net Reviews (H-USA) ""...the book contains all sorts of information and argument that make it worth reading ... [it] represents an advance in sociology, from the concentration on industrial societies to a full and proper concern with the historical record."" - European Journal of Sociology"

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Said Amir Arjomand is Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology and Director of the Stony Brook Institute for Global Studies at Stony Brook University, State University of New York. He is the author and editor of many books, including (with Nathan J. Brown) The Rule of Law, Islam, and Constitutional Politics in Egypt and Iran, also published by SUNY Press.

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