Debating civilisations

Manchester University Press

2017

vii, 205 pages

Part I. Theoretical engagements in civilisational analysis. Civilisations debated : uses and critiques of 'civilisation' -- Currents and perspectives in contemporary civilisational analysis -- Counterpoints, critiques, dialogues -- Inter-civilisational engagement : imaginaries, power, connected worlds -- Part II. Studies in inter-civilisational engagement. Salt water horizons : seas, oceans and civilisations -- Pacific imaginaries : ontologies of connection, reconstruction of memory -- Engagement in the cross-currents of history : perspectives on civilisation in Latin America -- Japan in engagement and the discourses of civilisation -- Conclusion.

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