TY - BOOK AU - Wagner,Peter TI - African, American and European trajectories of modernity: past oppression, future justice? T2 - Annual of European and global studies SN - 9781474400411 AV - CB430 .A375 2015 PY - 2015/// CY - Edinburgh PB - Edinburgh University Press KW - Civilization, Modern KW - 21st century KW - World history KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; Cover; African, American and European Trajectories of Modernity; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Introduction; Part I Reconstructing the History of Atlantic Modernity; 1 The American Divergence, the Modern Western World and the Paradigmatisation of History ; 2 The Limits of Recognition: History, Otherness and Autonomy; 3 On Being in Time: Modern African Elites and the Historical Challenge to Claims for Alternative and Multiple Modernities; 4 The Sublime Dignity of the Dictator:1 Republicanism and the Return of Dictatorship in Political Modernity; 5 The Luso-Brazilian Enlightenment: Between Reform and RevolutionPart II Comparing Trajectories of Modernity in the South; 6 Inconsistencies between Social-democratic Discourses and Neo-liberal Institutional Development in Chile and South Africa: a Comparative Analysis of the Post-authoritarian Periods; 7 HIV/AIDS Policies and Modernity in Brazil and South Africa: a Comparative Critical Analysis; 8 Land and Restitution in Comparative Perspective: Analysing the Evidence of Right to Land for Black Rural ommunities in Brazil and South Africa; Part III Claims for Justice in the History of Modernity and in its Present9 An Unsettled Past as a Political Resource; 10 Injustice at Both Ends: Pre- and Post-apartheid Literary Approaches to Injustice, Sentiment and Humanism in the Work of C. Louis Leipoldt, Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela and the Film Invictus; 11 The Student Movement in Chile 2011-12: Rearming the Critique of Capitalism ; 12 Indignation and Claims for Economic Sovereignty in Europe and the Americas: Renewing the Project of Control over Production; Notes on the Contributors; Index; 2; b N2 - African, American and European Trajectories of Modernity asks why, from some moment onwards, 'Europe' and 'the rest of the world' entered into a particular relationship: one of domination, conceived as a kind of superiority and as an 'advance' UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1427042&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -