Modern civilizations - Topics

Why did the civilizing mission argument survive so long? The Little Ice Age and the seventeenth-century crisis Does the word civilization still describe anything modern? Is industrial civilization a phase or the whole modern story? Is globalization producing one civilization or dissolving the category? Why do civilization courses survive in universities while the concept is attacked? Why does Huntington's clash of civilizations still get cited? Tambora in 1815 and the year without a summer What is informalization and why did manners loosen after the 1960s? Is Western civilization a description or a political slogan? Is the Anthropocene a periodization of civilization? Why has civilizational state become the fashionable way to describe China? Does decolonization mean giving up the word civilization? Has the internet made us worse at remembering things on our own? The attention economy turned boredom into a product Why do some inventions spread fast while others sit unused for centuries? Do modern societies still have a civilizing process? Is comparing civilizations just a polite way of ranking them? Can a civilizing process run backwards? Path dependence: why the wrong standard often wins Platform moderation has become border control by other means Appropriate technology as a development idea: what went wrong? Weber traced capitalism back to Protestant anxiety What would it take for historians to stop using civilization as a period label? Can a nation state be a civilization? Did settler colonies create new civilizations or copies of European ones? Patent systems and the pace of invention — is the link real? Can a civilization collapse in the modern world or only a state? Solow's paradox: computers everywhere except in the productivity statistics Why do fictional dystopias usually have exactly one idea? Is the word civilization still usable or is it a colonial leftover? Is there such a thing as African civilization in the singular?