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Romania - layers of collective identity in the 19th and the 20th centuries: An outline until the interwar period
Romania - layers of collective identity in the 19th and the 20th centuries: An outline until the interwar period

Author(s): Radu Baltasiu
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Editura Eikon

Summary/Abstract: There is no simple answer to the question of the development of the Romanian modernity. The paradigm of multiple modernities is a good starting point in understanding the issue since it “acknowledges” “the right” of the East “to appropriate modernity and the global system on their own” (Eisenstadt, Transformation and Transposition of the Thematic Multiple Modernities in the Era of Globalization, 2005, 43), i.e. considering its own development as “normal”. But, there is more at stake than multiple realities. The 19h century is for Romania the....

  • Issue Year: 7/2009
  • Issue No: 04
  • Page Range: 138-154
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: English