Modernisation and Tradition: European Local and Manorial Societies 1500-1900

Modernisation and Tradition: European Local and Manorial Societies 1500-1900
ISBN-10
9189116402
ISBN-13
9789189116405
Category
History
Pages
416
Language
English
Published
2004-01-01
Publisher
Nordic Academic Press
Author
Kerstin Sundberg

Description

This anthology is based on a symposium which had as its key issue a critical discussion of different theories of modernisation from the perspective of people's activities in local manorial societies. Modernisation can be studied in terms of changing values, norms and social relationships. From a theoretical point of view the book makes use of the possibility to change main macro-conceptions of the modernisation process, using dichotomies such as feudal/capitalist and individual/collective, and it also tries to integrate tradition and continuity perspective.

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