Europe And the Americas: State Formation, Capitalism And Civilizations in Atlantic Modernity (International Comparative Social Studies)

This volume takes up current debates in comparative and historical sociology that deal with multiple modernities and civilizations. It does so through an examination of patterns of state formation, civilization and the development of capitalism in the interaction of European and American worlds over three centuries. The early part of the argument explores cutting-edge theoretical debates around the nature of early modern formations. Sections on state formation, civilizational identities and capitalist development introduce new perspectives on both Europe and America. They bring into question classical images of Western expansion and modernization, providing an alternative picture of colonialism and inter-civilizational encounters. This book brings the Atlantic zone into rich fields of sociological thinking about civilizations and modernity. 9004152296......Page 1 CONTENTS......Page 8 INTRODUCTION --- S. N. Eisenstadt......Page 12 CHAPTER ONE ATLANTIC MODERNITY AND ITS DIMENSIONS......Page 14 CHAPTER TWO CIVILIZATIONAL SOCIOLOGY AND THE ATLANTIC......Page 36 CHAPTER THREE ABSOLUTISM AND POST-ABSOLUTISM IN EUROPE’S EMPIRES......Page 50 CHAPTER FOUR CIVILIZATION AND PRE-COLONIAL TRADITIONS......Page 87 CHAPTER FIVE ‘DISCOVERY’ IN THE WEST......Page 118 CHAPTER SIX MERCANTILISM, SLAVERY AND THE PART PLAYED BY THE TRANSATLANTIC EMPIRES IN THE FORMATION OF CAPITALISM......Page 153 CHAPTER SEVEN COMMUNITIES OF THE COLONIAL ORDER......Page 206 CHAPTER EIGHT WAR AND IMPERIAL RE-DIVISION BETWEEN UTRECHT AND THE SEVEN YEARS WAR......Page 246 CHAPTER NINE ‘RAISING THE DECIBELS’: REPUBLICAN REVOLUTIONS OF THE COLONIAL ORDER......Page 264 CHAPTER TEN THE ATLANTIC’S DISTINCT MODERNITY......Page 305 BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 328 INDEX......Page 346 "This volume takes up current debates in comparative and historical sociology that deal with multiple modernities and civilizations. It does so through an examination of patterns of state formation, civilization and the development of capitalism in the interaction of European and American worlds over three centuries. The early part of the argument explores theoretical debates around the nature of early modern formations." "Sections on state formation, civilizational identities and capitalist development introduce new perspectives on both Europe and America. They bring into question classical images of Western expansion and modernization, providing an alternative picture of colonialism and inter-civilizational encounters. This book brings the Atlantic zone into rich fields of sociological thinking about civilizations and modernity."--Jacket Takes up debates in comparative and historical sociology that deal with multiple modernities and civilizations. This book does so through an examination of patterns of state formation, civilization and the development of capitalism in the interaction of European and American worlds over three centuries