...This epilogue draws together the various aspects of remoteness tackled in the entire book. It looks into how the existence and perceptions of remoteness and remote areas have become inherent conditions of modernity and the process of modernization. The history of Hunza shows that some of the themes...

... be modernization. Taking the work of Max Weber, Karl Mannheim, and Joseph Schumpeter as a point of departure, this book examines this process. The topics covered are, among others, the meaning of modernization, the forces that drive it, and, especially, the consequences of modernization for the political freedom...

...As the United States continues to make the transition from an industrial to a postindustrial society, from modern to postmodern, and from national to global, it is necessary to determine which aspects of these changes are uniquely American and which are also happening in other advanced capitalist...

... the world around them and transforming the towns in the Soviet landscape with socialism. The project of cultural exploration is also one of modernization; from 1928 to 1931, Russia experienced a massive transformation and its modernization efforts were fuelled by a vision of decentralization. exploration...

...This chapter examines the limitations of mainstream 1930s environmentalism. Ecological modernizationists consider environmentalism at its best when it aligns with the agenda of powerful private and public actors. For advocates of ecological modernization, questions of substantive social change...

...This chapter follows the evolution of the Great River valley in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, an era when industrialization and modernization created anxieties among many Euro-American populations, as well as opportunities for enduring Native communities. It accounts for the emergence...

...The brief introduction traces the arc of Alamán’s career in general, highlighting along the way some prominent contemporaneous figures and events as reference points. The book’s framework--the entwined processes of decolonization and modernization, and their constitutive elements--is set forth...

... power. Dubbed “a Metternich among Indians” by one contemporary, he was a conservative modernizer rather than the ruthless reactionary he has been branded. Several times chief minister in the national government but never president of the young republic, Alamán’s efforts to impose political stability...

...The introduction outlines previous definitions of the modern state as well as historians’ current explanations of state formation in early modern Europe and England. It demonstrates that earlier scholars have focused almost entirely on the state’s ability to engage in active warfare and have thus...

...This chapter outlines the book's anthropological inquiry into the modernity and modernization of the inhabitants in Hunza, located in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan. Over the course of a century, Hunza has been an autonomous state, then a district and a semi-autonomous state within...

...This chapter explores three adhesive forces that have pulled people in different directions in the face of modernization, focusing on the special salience of disparities encountered by every modernizing society. It looks at the sequential development of three forms of unity: primordial unity...

... by the dynamics of the stage-by-stage process, while its basic content was determined by the challenge of modernization. The global process of modernization raises questions about the Russian Revolution and its ultimate social dimension, while the verbal ideology of Stalinism creates pervasive and enduring...

.... Soviet Communism evolved and decayed over the decades, the book argues, through a prolonged revolutionary process, combined with the challenges of modernization and the personal struggles between ideologues and power-grabbers....

...This book, an unremitting indictment of the mad violence with which Joseph Stalin ruled the Soviet Union, depicts Stalinism as a cruel and deliberate attack on Russian society, driven by “totalitarian ambitions” and the goal of modernizing and rationalizing a backward people. The text takes...

... a polluting, wasteful, and unreliable agricultural system. It is clear that the Soviet government believed that by modernizing the agricultural system, the country would gain in terms of productivity. The introduction examines the victories and failures of the Soviet Union in its desire to uplift...

...This chapter discusses the difference in the rule of law between the West and China. It focuses on the China model, which has been remarkably successful in promoting economic growth and managing the country's economic modernization and emergence as the world's second largest economy over the past...

...This chapter examines the United Kingdom's health care reform experience in the last decades of the twentieth century. It describes a pattern whereby reform meant to realize the original vision gave way to attempts to modernize it. It also created a continued process of frantic change, much...

...The interrelated themes of decolonization and modernization are revisited in light of Alamán’s career and thought, and the times through which he lived. decolonization modernization modernity independence of Mexico liberalism monarchism nation state citizenship indigenous people class...

... with a humanitarian veneer. By the late 1970s, politicians and businessmen were increasingly declaring their intent to rewrite the rules of global food production and trade on entirely profit-driven terms. Building on Cold War-inspired modernization and development projects initiated in the 1940s–1960s, U.S.-based...

...This book begins as an attempt to explore popular political responses to the advance of economic development and modernization during the Italian industrial takeoff in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. With expectations of immersing himself in the study of peasant rebellion...