Modernity and the escape from Eurocentrism

Handbook of Contemporary European Social Theory

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 266-278

  Delanty, Gerard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203086476-29     Document Type: Chapter

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