Social Mobility and Modernization by Robert I Rotberg

Social Mobility and Modernization by Robert I Rotberg

The essays in this book examine how the West modernized and what that modernization meant to human society, particularly in Western Europe and the United States. Within that frame are several distinct subthemes: the process of industrialization in Europe and elsewhere; social mobility, class structures, and class differences; social unrest and the stresses of modernization and industrialization; economic and social equality and inequality and their markers; the role of women in modernization; and the origins of nationalism. The book's chapters discuss these issues from medieval times through the twentieth century, with particular focus on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Contributors
John Bohstedt, Gregory Clark, Theodore Evergates, Claudia Goldin, David Herlihy, Raymond Jonas, Michael Katz, Gloria Main, Franklin Mendels, Joel Mokyr, Gale Stokes, Louis Tilly, Dale Williams, E. A. Wrigley

Robert I. Rotberg is director of the Program on Intrastate Conflict, Conflict Prevention, and Conflict Resolution at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, and president of the World Peace Foundation. Rotberg is the author or editor of numerous books, including State Failure and State Weakness in a Time of Terror (Brookings/WPF, 2003). Greg Mills, national director of the South African Institute of International Affairs, is the author of From Pariah to Participant: South Africa's Evolving Foreign Policy Relations, 1990-1994 (SAIIA, 1994) and South Africa and Peacekeeping in Africa (SAIIA, 1995).

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ISBN 13	9780262681230
ISBN 10	0262681234
Title	Social Mobility and Modernization
Author	Robert I Rotberg
Series	Social Mobility And Modernization
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	MIT Press Ltd
Year published	2000-10-10
Number of pages	368
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