Cover; Table of Contents; List of Tables, Figures and Maps; Part I -- Theory and History; 1 -- Structure, Culture and Modernity; 2 -- Europe in Modern History; Part II -- Structurations; 3 -- The Boundaries and the Peopling of Europe; 4 -- Divisions of Labour; 5 -- Rights to Claim: Membership and Welfare; 6 -- Rights to Act -- Politics, Sex and Property; 7 -- Means: 'The Glorious Years'; 8 -- Risks and Opportunities; Part III -- Spacing; 9 -- Cities and States; 10 -- The European Economic Space; 11 -- Europe's Cultural Space; Part IV -- Enculturations; 12 -- Issues of Identity
13 -- Horizons of Knowledge and TImes of Belief14 -- Values of Contemporary Modernity; Part V -- Collective Action and Social Steering; 15 -- Civil Societies and Collective Action; 16 -- Eastern Socialism and Western Union: Two Processes of Social Steering; Part IV -- Modernity and Europe: Six Questions and Their Answers; Envoi: Europe and the Rest of Modernity; Bibliography; Index
Summary
In this book one of Europe's foremost sociologists offers a profound and accessible overview of the trajectory of European societies, East and West, since the end of World War II. Combining theoretical depth with factual analysis, G ran Therborn addresses the questions that underpin an understanding of the nature of European modernity, including: To what extent is the period 1945-2000 producing fundamental change and what are the areas of continuity? Have the societies of Europe become more similar to others on the globe or more distinctively European? What are the prospects of Europe after de
Bibliography
Includes bibliographic references (p. 367-389) and index
