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Cultural change in modern world history : cases, causes and consequences
- Title
- Cultural change in modern world history : cases, causes and consequences / Peter N. Stearns, with Olivia A. O'Neill and Jack Censer.
- Author
- Stearns, Peter N.
- Publication
- London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2019.
- ©2019
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 19-5276 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Description
- 272 pages : illustrations, facsimiles; 24 cm
- Summary
- In this innovative textbook, leading world historian Peter Stearns analyses key examples of culture change from around the world, highlighting what culture change involves and how it can be explained and assessed, both historically and in the contemporary world. Culture change is one of the most interesting and significant features of human society, but until now there has been no book for the classroom which looks explicitly at this phenomenon. Cultural Change in Modern World History covers different kinds and levels of culture change since 1500 - from colonial culture contact in British India to modernization in Meiji Japan and changing attitudes towards gay marriage in the past decade - considering how we should define culture change, how to deal with causation and how to evaluate continuities and consequences. Stearns addresses fundamental questions: why do groups of people change their beliefs and values, and what happens when they do? Conversely, why do some groups resist culture change, and how do some manage to combine novel and more traditional cultural components? Figuring out how better to understand why groups or societies change their minds - or refuse to do so - provides a crucial perspective on human behaviors and values. As the first book to explore this important question, Cultural Change in Modern World History is a ground-breaking text for students of world history, cultural history and anthropology.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-265) and index.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-5276
- ISBN
- 9781350054349
- 1350054348
- 9781350054332
- 135005433X
- 9781350054325 (canceled/invalid)
- 1350054321 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781350054356 (canceled/invalid)
- 1350054356 (canceled/invalid)
- OCLC
- 1006305612
- Author
- Stearns, Peter N., author.
- Title
- Cultural change in modern world history : cases, causes and consequences / Peter N. Stearns, with Olivia A. O'Neill and Jack Censer.
- Publisher
- London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-265) and index.
- Added Author
- O'Neill, Olivia A., author.Censer, Jack Richard, author.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-5276