Debating civilisations: Interrogating civilisational analysis in a global age

Debating civilisations offers an up-to-date evaluation of the re-emerging field of civilisational analysis, tracing its main currents and comparing it to rival paradigms such as Marxism, globalisation theory and postcolonial sociology. The book suggests that civilisational analysis offers an alterna...

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Main Author: C. A. Smith, Jeremy (auth)
Format: Book Chapter
Published: Manchester University Press 2017
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