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A pioneering approach to social theory that rectifies overreliance on Western historical experience of development and modernization.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright Page, Series Page, Dedication
  2. pp. i-vi
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. vii-x
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  1. Foreword: Pangaea II: Global/Local Studies
  2. pp. xi-xii
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  1. Preface
  2. pp. xiii-xiv
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  1. Introduction: The Challenge of Integrating Social Theory and Regional Studies
  2. Saïd Amir Arjomand
  3. pp. 1-20
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  1. Part I: Comparative Sociology, Civilizational Analysis, and Regional Studies
  1. 1: Three Generations of Comparative Sociologies
  2. Saïd Amir Arjomand
  3. pp. 23-62
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  1. 2: History, Sociology, and the Reconfiguration of Civilizations
  2. Björn Wittrock
  3. pp. 63-90
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  1. 3: Civilization in the Global Era: One, Many … or None?
  2. Edward A. Tiryakian
  3. pp. 91-112
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  1. 4: Power: Nation-States, Civilizations, and Globalization—A Multiple Modernities Perspective
  2. Willfried Spohn
  3. pp. 113-144
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  1. 5: Reconfiguring Area Studies for the Global Age
  2. Wolf Schäfer
  3. pp. 145-176
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  1. Part II: Historicizing Axial Shifts and Patterns of Evolution and Modernization
  1. 6: Historicizing Axial Civilizations
  2. Johann P. Arnason
  3. pp. 179-202
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  1. 7: Crystallization of Islam and Developmental Patterns in the Islamicate Civilization
  2. Saïd Amir Arjomand
  3. pp. 203-220
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  1. 8: Evolutionary Grades within Complex Societies: The Case of Ethiopia
  2. Donald N. Levine
  3. pp. 221-266
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  1. 9: From Civilizations to Modernity: Divisions and Connections of the World, and Their Legacy—A Historical Social Geology
  2. Göran Therborn
  3. pp. 267-290
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  1. Part III: World Regions, Colonial and Subaltern Modernities in the Global Periphery
  1. 10: World-Sociology Beyond the Fragments: Oblivion and Advance in the Comparative Analysis of Modernities
  2. Peter Wagner
  3. pp. 293-312
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  1. 11: The Americas, Civilizational Analysis, and Its Current Competitors: Bringing (Revolutionary) Politics Back In!
  2. Wolfgang Knöbl
  3. pp. 313-338
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  1. 12: Atlantic Capitalism, American Economic Cultures
  2. Jeremy C. A. Smith
  3. pp. 339-360
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  1. 13: Second Slavery versus Second Serfdom: Local Labor Regimes of the Global Periphery
  2. Manuela Boatcă
  3. pp. 361-388
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  1. 14: Subaltern Modernities: The Case of the Arab Iranian Community of Bushehr
  2. Babak Rahimi
  3. pp. 389-414
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  1. 15: The Construction of Regional Identities in East Asia
  2. Thomas Kern, Lotta Mayer, and Sang‑hui Nam
  3. pp. 415-436
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  1. 16: Gazing Backward or Looking Forward: Colonial Modernity and Making of a Sociology of Modern India
  2. Sujata Patel
  3. pp. 437-460
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  1. Contributors
  2. pp. 461-466
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 467-482
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  1. Back Cover
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