Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I Reconstructing the History of Atlantic Modernity
6. 1 The American Divergence, the Modern Western World and the Paradigmatisation of History 21
7. 2 The Limits of Recognition: History, Otherness and Autonomy 42
8. 3 On Being in Time: Modern African Elites and the Historical Challenge to Claims for Alternative and Multiple Modernities 64
9. 4 The Sublime Dignity of the Dictator:1 Republicanism and the Return of Dictatorship in Political Modernity 77
10. 5 The Luso-Brazilian Enlightenment: Between Reform and Revolution 101
11. Part II Comparing Trajectories of Modernity in the South
12. 6 Inconsistencies between Social-democratic Discourses and Neo-liberal Institutional Development in Chile and South Africa: a Comparative Analysis of the Post-authoritarian Periods1 125
13. 7 HIV/AIDS Policies and Modernity in Brazil and South Africa: a Comparative Critical Analysis 149
14. 8 Land and Restitution in Comparative Perspective: Analysing the Evidence of Right to Land for Black Rural Communities in Brazil and South Africa 174
15. Part III Claims for Justice in the History of Modernity and in its Present
16. 9 An Unsettled Past as a Political Resource 197
17. 10 Injustice at Both Ends: Pre- and Post-apartheid Literary Approaches to Injustice, Sentiment and Humanism in the Work of C. Louis Leipoldt, Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela and the Film Invictus 219
18. 11 The Student Movement in Chile 2011–12: Rearming the Critique of Capitalism 238
19. 12 Indignation and Claims for Economic Sovereignty in Europe and the Americas: Renewing the Project of Control over Production 258
20. Notes on the Contributors 288
21. Index 294