Worlds Apart: Modernity Through the Prism of the Local (Asa Decennial Conference Series : the Uses of Knowledge : Global and Local Relations)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: December 22, 1995
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780415107891
First sentence: Defined as perhaps the key value of the historical experience of the twentieth century the desire to be modern became for much of the world an aspiration to achieve through emulation rather than the working out of an indigenous history.