TY - BOOK AU - Hall,Stuart AU - Gieben,Bram ED - Open University. TI - Formations of Modernity T2 - Understanding modern societies SN - 9780745609607 (pbk) : U1 - 306 20 PY - 1992/// CY - Oxford PB - Polity in association with Open University N1 - Includes bibliographies and index N2 - An examination of the historical processes, institutions and ideas which have shaped 20th-century societies. Its themes include the way in which the political, economic, social and cultural dimensions of modern industrialized societies developed and the historical transition to "modernity" ER -