Becoming Modern: Individual Change in Six Developing Countries
- ISBN-10
- 0674499336
- ISBN-13
- 9780674499331
- Series
- Becoming Modern
- Pages
- 452
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-10-01
- Authors
- Alex Inkeles, David Horton Smith
Get the book
Other editions
-
- 2021-05-11
- 264 pages
- Ebook
- Princeton University Press
-
- 2000-09-25
- 249 pages
- Paperback
- Princeton University Press
Similar books
-
Becoming Modern: Individual Change in Six Developing Countries
By Alex Inkeles, David Horton SmithThis is a valuable and fascinating book valuable because of the findings it presents, fascinating because of the way it presents them. The subject of Becoming Modern is the modernization...
-
Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy
By Carolyn BurkeHolbrook Jackson, The Eighteen Nineties: A Review of Art and Ideas at the Close of the Nineteenth Century. New York: Knopf, 1912. Edouard Jaguar. Richard Oelze. New York: Lafayette Parke Gallery, 1991. Peter Jelavich.
-
Becoming Modern Women: Love and Female Identity in Prewar Japanese Literature and Culture
By Michiko SuzukiBecoming Modern Women: Love and Female Identity in Prewar Japanese Literature and Culture is a literary and cultural history of love and female identity in Japan during the 1910s-30s.
-
Becoming Modern, Becoming Tradition: Women, Gender, and Representation in Mexican Art
By Adriana ZavalaBecoming Modern, Becoming Tradition examines the relationships among women, nationalism, racial identity, and modernity before, during, and after the Mexican Revolution. In this innovative study, Adriana Zavala demonstrates that...
-
Meat, Modernity, and the Rise of the Slaughterhouse
By Paula Young LeeThis title offers an interdisciplinary look at the rise of the slaughterhouse in 19th-century Europe and the Americas. Over the course of this period, the factory slaughterhouse replaced the hand slaughter of animals by individual butchers.
-
Becoming Modern: Willa Cather's Journalism
By M. Catherine Downs14 Cather's new book included illustrations by Benda , illustrations which became a kind of narrator , just as Jim Burden ... and Antonia's becoming a single mother — all issues which were " modern " and " disturbing in Cather's time ...
-
From Gift to Commodity: Capitalism and Sacrifice in Nineteenth-century American Fiction
By Hildegard HoellerIn this rich interdisciplinary study, Hildegard Hoeller argues that nineteenth-century American culture was driven by and deeply occupied with the tension between gift and market exchange.
-
Distant Strangers: How Britain Became Modern
By James VernonJames Belich, Replenishing the Earth: The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Anglo-World, 1783–1939 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), 4. 27. Christopher Bayly, The Birth of the Modern World, 1780–1914 (Oxford: Blackwell, ...
-
The Many Roads to Becoming Modern: A History of Collectivism in Rural Jiangsu Province
By Chen JiajianThe Many Roads to Becoming Modern explores “collectivism” in the context of contemporary rural Chinese history. Following the history of a southern village from 1949 to the present, the author attempts to understand the origin and ...
-
Cultures of Femininity in Modern Fashion
By Elizabeth M. Sheehan, Ilya ParkinsAn interdisciplinary collection illuminating how fashion shaped concepts and practices of femininity and modernity