“…Explores the purpose of utopias, what they reveal about the societies who conceive them, and how utopias have changed over the centuries Unique in including both non-Western and Western visions of utopia Explores the many forms utopias have taken - prophecies and oratory, writings, political movements, world's fairs, physical communities - and also discusses high-tech and cyberspace visions for the first time The first book to analyze the implicitly utopian dimensions of reform crusades like Technocracy of the 1930s and Modernization Theory of the 1950s, and the laptop classroom initiatives of recent years…”

“…This book explores the relationship between modern Western civilization and the classical antiquity of Greece and Rome, focusing on the 19th and 20th centuries. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…part I. Western European fads : porcelain, fetishes, museum objects, antiques -- part II. …”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Divine sonship in Israel -- The New Testament narrative of son and spirit and its ancient antecedents -- From symbols to the formulation of doctrine in the creeds -- Augustine and a new symbolism for the western God -- The breach between East and West -- The aftermath in the West: God and power -- The aftermath in the East: understanding union with God in Christ -- The great divide…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Book Cover; Half-Title; Series Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Notes on contributors; Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction: The idea of a post-Western Europe; Part I: A post-Western world; 1 Europe from a cosmopolitan perspective; 2 Post-Western Europe and the plural Asias; 3 Civilizational constellations and European modernity reconsidered; 4 Oriental globalization: Past and present; Part II: Asia in Europe: Encounters in history; 5 Contested divergence: Rethinking the "rise of the West"; 6 Discovering the world: Cosmopolitanism and globality in the 'Eurasian' renaissance…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Road safety figures for the countries of Western Europe""; ""4.2. Road safety figures for Central and Eastern Europe""; ""4.3. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Acknowledgements -- Some notes on terminology -- Introduction -- Early feminist thought -- Liberalism and beyond : mainstream feminism in the nineteenth century -- The contribution of Marx and Engels -- The vote and after : mainstream feminism in the United States and Britain from the late nineteenth century to the Second World War -- Left-wing feminism in Britain and the United States -- Marxist feminism in Germany and Russia -- Feminism after the second World War -- Liberalism and beyond : feminism and equal rights from the 1960s -- Radical feminism and the concept of patriarchy -- Radical feminism : patriarchy in private and public life -- Marxist and socialist feminism from the 1960s -- Theoretical developments : postmodern feminisms and beyond -- Theoretical developments : postcolonial feminism, black feminism and intersectionality -- Western feminist theory in the twenty first century : developments in liberal and socialist thought -- Western feminism in the twenty first century: continuities, challenges and change -- Conclusions: feminist political theory today -- Bibliography -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Sport Across Asia Politics, Cultures, and Identities; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction: From Asian Sports to Sport in Asia; 1 Anthropological Perspectives on Sport and Culture: Against Sports as the Essence of Western Modernity; 2 Civilizing Bodies: Somatic Engineering in China; 3 Sport in Japan in the Early 21st Century: An Interpretation; 4 The Memory of Colonialism and Imagined Unification: Two Distinctive Natures of South Korean Sporting Nationalism in the 21st Century…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Bell, Paige West and Colin Filer -- Wildlands, deserted bays and other bushy metaphors of Pacific place / Alexander Mawyer -- Non-pristine forests : a long-term history of land transformation in the western Solomons / Edvard Hviding -- Forests of gold : from mining to logging (and back again) / Jamon Alex Halvaksz -- The impact of mining development on settlement patterns, firewood availability and forest structure in Porgera / Jerry K. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Networks of transnational powerThe regulatory form of the global commodity production system; Conclusion; 5. The crisis of Western economic power; Introduction; The logic of Western military and financial power; Accumulation crisis; From financial instability to monetary collapse; Conclusion; 6. …”

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