European Modernity

Bo Stråth is Emeritus Professor of Nordic, European and World History at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He also taught contemporary history at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.Peter Wagner is Research Professor at the Catalan Institute for Advanced Studies and Research (ICREA) at the University of Barcelona, Spain.

[The] authors do not resort to jargon, and though the authors’ different writing styles manifest themselves in the work, the ideas of the whole are retained. Excellent text for historiography. Good endnotes; no separate bibliography; good index.

• Part I. The Question of European Modernity1. Introduction: Modernity – Europe – European Modernity2. What is Europe?Part II. Key Features of European Modernity Reconsidered3. Europe’s Hesitation with Democracy4. The Industrial and Market Revolution in Global Perspective: The Colonial Heritage and theSocial Question5. European Religion: The Christians and the Others6. The European: Atom – Individual – Person – Subject?PART III Transformations of European Modernity7. The Axial Age and Modern Europe8. The Great Transformation: Organized Modernity for Welfare and Warfare, 1870s - 1960s9. The New Great Transformation: The Global Challenge of Historical injustice and Movementsfor Collective Self-determination: 1960s – The presentEpilogueBibliographyIndex