Globality and Multiple Modernities

Luis Roniger is Reynolds Professor of Latin American Studies at Wake Forest University. A comparative political sociologist, his work focuses on the interface between politics, society and public culture. Carlos H Waisman is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of a large number of articles and books and book chapters.

• Contents: Approaching Multiple Modernities in the Americas; The First Multiple Modernities: Collective Identity, Public Spheres and Political Order in the Americas; Latin America as a Mausoleum of Modernities; Fragment of Europe or Historical Innovation? The Emergence of Modernity in the United States after Independence; Global Immersion: Latin America and its Multiple Modernities; The Multiple Modernities Argument and Societies in the Americas; Constitutional Development in the United States and Argentina; Constitutional Perspectives on Modernity: The Canadian Experience; The Generation of Public Spheres in Brazil: The Role of Abolitionism ; The Meaning of Territory: Colonial Standards and Modern Questions in Ecuador; Globalisation and Limited Democracy through the Mirror of History in Chile; Modernity and Canadian Civilisation: The Ideas of Harold A. Innis; The Counter-Hegemonic Discourse of Brazilian and Argentinean Intellectuals, 1920--1940; Collective Identities and Citizenship in Quebec; Modes of Citizenship in Mexico; Latin American Migrant Writers: Nomadic, Decentred, Contrapuntal'; Index.

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